The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 18, 2025
Over the Bridge on Rights March: Marchers stream across the Edmund Pettus Bridge over the Alabama River at Selma today on start of their five day, 50-mile march on the state capitol at Montgomery. The civil rights marchers, eight abreast, were led by Dr. Martin Luther King, March 21, 1965
1965, printed 1990
Image: 27.9 x 19.3 cm (11 x 7 5/8 in.); Paper: 29.2 x 20.2 cm (11 1/2 x 7 15/16 in.)
Location: Not on view
Did You Know?
Despite the Civil Rights Act of 1964 banning racial discrimination in voting, Blacks in southern states were still being denied voting access in 1965.Description
Protests demanding equal voting rights for Blacks were met with resistance, arrests, and sometime, violence. Alabama became the focus of these protests, culminating in the famous 54-mile march from Selma to Montgomery led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on March 21-25, 1965. Press coverage, especially photographs, aroused public awareness and helped lead, five months later, to passage of the national Voting Rights Act, which allowed Black voters to challenge restrictions and greatly strengthened their participation in elections.- ?-2021Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg, Scarsdale, NYMarch 1, 2021The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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