Associated Press Whites Join Negro Protest

GLC09734.03

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GLC#
GLC09734.03-View header record
Type
Images
Date
6 March 1965
Author/Creator
Associated Press
Title
Whites Join Negro Protest
Place Written
Selma, Alabama
Pagination
1 photograph : b&w Height: 20.5 cm, Width: 25.5 cm
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Primary time period
1945 to the Present
Sub-Era
The Civil Rights Movement The Sixties

One wirephoto entitled, "Whites Join Negro Protest," taken by Associated Press dated March 6, 1965. Image is of white protesters holding signs that read "Votelessness = Hopelessness," "Decent Alabamians Detest Police Brutality." Wire transfer information states that a group of 50 white protesters marched in Selma, Alabama towards the courthouse. They joined Black civil rights activists who had been protesting for 7 weeks in Dallas, Texas and other areas against discriminatory voting registration practices.

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