The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 19, 2025
The Selma to Montgomery Marches: Press in front of marchers filming the march, Montgomery, March 1965
1965
Image: 18.9 x 24 cm (7 7/16 x 9 7/16 in.); Paper: 20.2 x 25.4 cm (7 15/16 x 10 in.)
Location: Not on view
Did You Know?
Press coverage was an important tool for the Civil Rights Movement.Description
In contrast with his colleagues jockeying for position at the front of the march to catch close-ups of its leaders, this photojournalist found an elevated vantage point farther way. The distance allowed him to convey the length and density of the line of marchers and the relationship between them and the press. News coverage of the Selma march in newspapers and on televisions in the politically influential cities of Washington, D.C. and New York was crucial to getting a national voting rights act passed.- ?-2021Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg, Scarsdale, NYMarch 1, 2021The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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