Title from caption on object: “On Their Way”, March 1965

Inscription

on verso, upper left printed in black ink on applied paper perpendicular: AP NEWSFEATURES PHOTO / G--8863 PLEASE CREDIT / (For use Sunday, March 16, with Rex / Thomas' Selma, Ala., APN story on the / 10th anniversary of the civil rights march.) / ON THEIR WAY / Civil rights marchers move along US / Highway 80 on their way from Selma to / Montgomery, Ala., in 1965, as an Army / military policeman beside the road watches. / Army regulars and National Guardsmen had / been ordered out by President Johnson to / guard the five-day pilgrimage which was / the beginning of a struggle that ultimately / gave the right to vote to thousands of / disfranchised black people in Alabama and / elsewhere across the South. / jb-3/4/75 fls si1235; upper center printed in black ink on applied newspaper perpendicular: Civil rights marchers move along / U.S. 80 on their way from Selma / to Montgomery, Ala. in 1965, as / an Army military policeman / watches beside the road.; upper center stamped in orange ink on applied newspaper perpendicular: OCT 30 1977; center printed in black ink on applied newspaper perpendicular: Marchers move along U.S. 80 on their way from Selma to Montgomery.; center stamped in orange ink on applied newspaper perpendicular: DEC 10 1978; by unknown hand, center right in orange crayon: Library; lower right in graphite perpendicular: ALABAMA: / SELMA; bottom left printed in black ink on applied label inverted: acv 00763

Provenance

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

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