Civil Rights Press Photograph — Selma, Alabama, 1963
Original Black and White Press Photo, Type II
Civil Rights Press Photograph — Selma, Alabama, 1963
“One Man One Vote.” Simple words. Radical demand. This was not symbolic protest. It was confrontation with the machinery of exclusion.
The reverse of the photograph confirms its working life. Date stamps. Editorial markings. This print moved through newsrooms, not galleries. It was handled quickly, reproduced cheaply, and meant to inform before being discarded.
Most were.
Selma in 1963 is often compressed into a single moment or a single bridge. This photograph reminds us that the movement was sustained, repetitive, and exhausting. Day after day. Courthouse after courthouse. The same demands carried until the country could no longer ignore them.
This piece comes from a larger Civil Rights archive (circa 1620–1970) used in the History ’N’ Pieces series. These objects survive not because they were preserved carefully—but because someone, somewhere, chose not to throw them away.
That decision matters.
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