Mar 25, 2021 - Sale 2562

Sale 2562 - Lot 177

Price Realized: $ 1,188
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(CIVIL RIGHTS.) Group of 7 oversized press photos of the Selma-Montgomery marches. Wire photographs, 11 x 14 inches, each captioned in negative, with period UPI and Field Enterprises inked stamps on verso, and later collection stickers, some with manuscript captions on verso; minimal wear. Selma and Montgomery, AL, 7 to 16 March 1965
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Two of the photographs depict a dramatic scene from "Bloody Sunday," the brutal first attempted march on 7 March, showing organizer Amelia Boynton (1911-2015) unconscious by the Pettus Bridge and being carried off by other marchers as a helmeted sheriff stands by. She is not identified in the captions.

3 photographs depict the 9 March second march in Selma. One shows a long line of marchers crossing over the Pettus Bridge; another shows a mixed-race group of nuns and clergymen "in the forefront." The final 2 photographs depict demonstrators clashing with police in Montgomery on 16 March, the eve of the final successful march. With--2 other wire photographs in the same format, one a crowd view of the Detroit Walk to Freedom on 23 June 1963, and the other of rather soggy policemen attempting to arrest a mixed group of men who were integrating a swimming pool in St. Augustine, FL, 18 June 1964.