Associated Press Came the Dawn

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GLC#
GLC09734.11-View header record
Type
Images
Date
March 11, 1965
Author/Creator
Associated Press
Title
Came the Dawn
Place Written
Selma, Alabama
Pagination
1 photograph : b&w Height: 20.5 cm, Width: 25.5 cm
Primary time period
1945 to the Present
Sub-Era
The Civil Rights Movement The Sixties

One wirephoto entitled, "Came the Dawn" taken by Associated Press dated March 11, 1965. Image is of a line of protestors wrapped in blankets by a church. Police officers are photographed alongside of them. Wire transfer information states that the protesters staged a camp-in. Their plan was to march to the courthouse following the sleeping on the street in front of a church.

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