Title from caption on object: “Soldiers Kept alongside Marchers as Demonstrators Walked on Highway 80”

March 1965

American 20th Century

Attributed to

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image: 15.5 × 24.6 cm (6 1/8 × 9 11/16 in.)
    sheet: 15.9 × 25.4 cm (6 1/4 × 10 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2018.177.466


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, by unknown hand, top center in red ink circled: Blacks - Segregation - Demonstrations - Alabama March; upper center Associated Press copyright stamp in red ink inverted; upper center stamped in purple ink on applied newspaper: 4 MAR 22 1965S; center printed in black ink on applied newspaper: Associated Press / SOLDIERS KEPT ALONGSIDE MARCHERS AS DEMONSTRATORS WALKED ON HWY. 80 / Guards are all along route between Selma and Montgomery, Ala.; by unknown hand, center in graphite: 4 col x 4 1/2; center right stamped in blue ink perpendicular and partially visible: [ENGRAVING] OFFICE / [obscured] 1:23; by unknown hand, center right in red ink circled, crossed out, and perpendicular: negroes - segreg - Dem - Ala - March / Selma / Blacks -; lower left printed in black ink on applied newspaper: SELMA, Ala. —(AP)—Three / hundred marchers — show- / ered by segregationist leaf- / lets from the "Confederate / Air Force" — trudged behind / the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther / King today on the second leg / of a 50-mile voter crusade to / Alabama's capital. / [arrow] / The march wound along / the blacktop of U.S. Hwy. 80 / under heavy guard by feder- / alized Alabama National / Guardsmen and riot-trained / Army regulars called up by / President Johnson to protect / the demonstration.; by unknown hand, lower right in graphite: City fmal [?] Mon Star


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