Title from caption on object: “Washington Police Carried Demonstrator out of the Way”

March 12, 1965

Charles Tasnadi

Associated Names
Charles Tasnadi

Artist, American, born Hungary, 1925 - 2008

Associated Press

Publisher

This is a photograph of a physical altercation during a public demonstration or protest. The image captures a scene where uniformed officers are engaged in an interaction with individuals on the ground. One person is being held by their limbs. There is a crowd of bystanders in the background, some holding signs. The officers are dressed in heavy winter overcoats. The architecture in the background and the leafless trees suggest a specific time of year or location. The image is in black and white, emphasizing the contrasts and the event being documented.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image: 18.5 × 22.4 cm (7 5/16 × 8 13/16 in.)
    sheet: 19.9 × 23.1 cm (7 13/16 × 9 1/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2018.177.468

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, upper center printed in black ink on applied green sticker: 60; upper center stamped in purple ink: TRIBUNE PRE-STATE; upper right printed in black ink on applied newspaper perpendicular: Associated Press / WASHINGTON POLICE CARRIED DEMONSTRATOR OUT OF THE WAY / Police cleared the street, making many arrests / WASHINGTON, D.C. —(AP)— Civil rights pickets / swarmed onto Pennsylvania Av. Friday and sprawled on / the pavement in front of the White House. They sang and / struggled as police carried them away. / It was the second time in two days that the Southern / civil rights tactic of civil disobedience had been aimed at / the White House by demonstrators demanding that Presi- / dent Johnson send federal forces to Selma, Ala. / Mr. Johnson was quoted as declaring he would not be / blackjacked by pickets into any hasty action in the racially / torn Southern city.; upper right stamped in purple ink on applied newspaper perpendicular: 4 MAR 13 1965 T; center left stamped in blue ink perpendicular: ENGRAVING OFFICE / 1965 MAR 12 PM 9:13; lower center Associated Press copyright stamp in red ink; by unknown hand, bottom left in red ink inverted and circled: Blacks- / Negroes [crossed out] / Segregation - Demon - Wash. DC.

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