Associated Press Confrontation

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GLC#
GLC09734.07-View header record
Type
Images
Date
March 9, 1965
Author/Creator
Associated Press
Title
Confrontation
Place Written
Selma, Alabama
Pagination
1 photograph : b&w Height: 12.5 cm, Width: 17.5 cm
Primary time period
1945 to the Present
Sub-Era
The Civil Rights Movement The Sixties

One wirephoto entitled "Confrontation" taken by Associated Press dated March 9, 1965. Image is of protestors approaching a line of state troopers armed with clubs on a highway. Wire transfer information describes that state troopers blocked the protests outside of Selma, Alabama. There were an estimated 2,000 people who turned back a judge ordered a stop on the march.

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