The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 18, 2025

Nursing Tired and Sore Feet: Rodney Shaw, Washington, D.C., foreground, bathes his tired and sore feet in a roadside stream while other civil rights marchers rest their feet during a stop in their march on the Alabama state capitol at Montgomery. The march approached the city limits this afternoon where the demonstrators will make camp before converging on the capital tomorrow. March 24, 1965

1965

America

gelatin silver print, wirephoto
Image: 21 x 16.9 cm (8 1/4 x 6 5/8 in.); Paper: 22 x 20.6 cm (8 11/16 x 8 1/8 in.)
The Jane B. Tripp Charitable Lead Annuity Trust 2021.17
Location: Not on view

Did You Know?

The 54-mile march for equal voting rights went from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, and took 5 days.

Description

This photograph, likely considered as a human interest item by the newspapers, encourages us to empathize with and admire the marchers by showing us the physical hardships they are enduring and their stoic attitude. It also demonstrates that whites joined in the struggle to gain equal voting rights for Blacks.
  • ?-2021
    Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg, Scarsdale, NY
    March 1, 2021
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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