Keeping our shared history alive.
A community-led initiative to contextualize Civil Rights-era photographs and then return them to the places where they were taken and to the people who lived the history they captured.
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6 imagesMarch dignitaries enter Montgomery
Marchers entering Montgomery—March dignitaries enter Montgomery. In picture front to back: James Bevel, Andrew Young, Ralph Bunche, Martin Luther King, Coretta King, Bayard Rustin, A. Philip Randolph, Ralph Abernathy.
Marchers enter Montgomery in rain
Selma to Montgomery March for voting rights. Marchers entering Montgomery, Alabama in rain storm. Selma-Montgomery, Alabama AL 3/21/1965.
Dignitaries leave Selma
Selma, AL: March 21, 1965. Selma to Montgomery March for voting rights: 1965 March leaders leaving Selma on 1st day of march. Left to right, wearing leis: John Lewis, nun, Ralph Abernathy, Martin Luther King, Ralph Bunche, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel.
Marchers and flags
Alabama: March 21, 1965. Selma to Montgomery March for voting rights: Marchers and flags cross the horizon. Airplane is reconnaissance plane of Alabama National Guard on lookout for threats to march.
Anthony Quin struggles with policeman
Mrs. Aylene Quin of McComb, Mississippi & her kids try to see Mississippi Gov. Paul Johnson to protest seating of 5 congressmen from districts where blacks can't vote. Patrolman Huey Krohn struggles for possession of flag held by Anthony Quin, 5. Mrs. Quin said: 'Anthony, don't let that man take your flag,' and Anthony held on. He said later: 'I wasn't afraid of that policeman, I was more afraid of my Momma!'
CORE worker C.O. Chinn Jr. promotes registration
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was passed in August, and within ten days federal registgrars had fanned out to counties in the South with a history of voter discrimination. Here C.O. Chinn Jr., a CORE worker, stops to chat during his voter registration canvas of Sawmill Bottom, a poor neighborhood of Canton, Mississippi. His message: Go down to the courthouse to register. Nobody's gonna stop you now.