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High school students under arrest for marching in support of voter registration, February, 1965. Sheriff Jim Clark supervises their incarceration for crimes against the southern way of life. |
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Dr. King, Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, Rev. Ralph Abernathy, and Rev. Andrew Young demanding voting rights on the steps of the Dallas County courthouse. |
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SCLC organizers Rev. James Bevel, Rev. Richard Boone, and Rev. Harold Middlebrook outside of Tabernacle Baptist Church in Selma. |
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High-school students leading freedom songs at a mass meeting in Brown Chapel. |
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Young students march for voting rights and are placed under arrest. |
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Preaching a sermon of freedom on a cold winter day. From left, John Lewis of SNCC (kneeling), Hosea Williams of SCLC (kneeling), and Andy Young of SCLC (standing). Movement headquarters Brown Chapel is in the background. |
Hosea Williams (SCLC) and John Lewis (SNCC), followed by Albert Turner (SCLC) and Bob Mants (SNCC), lead the march down from the Edmund Pettus bridge towards the waiting troopers and possemen. |
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Troopers Attack! |
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Selma Movement leader Mrs. Amelia Boynton after being gassed and clubbed to the ground. |
Bringing in the wounded. |
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Out for blood! |
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Around the nation Around the World demonstrators support the embattled citizens of Selma & Montgomery and the demand for Voting Rights Now!Here protesters block Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House. |
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