May 07, 2020 - Sale 2534

Sale 2534 - Lot 221

Price Realized: $ 344
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(CIVIL RIGHTS.) Press photograph of the shooting of James Meredith on the March Against Fear. Wire photograph, 5 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches; roughly cropped at top edge, crop marks in margins, related 1967 newspaper clipping on verso. Np, 7 June 1966
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The activist James Meredith was shot three times with a shotgun on the second day of his March Against Fear from Memphis to Mississippi. In this image of the shooting, the assailant Aubrey James Norvell can be seen in the roadside shrubbery to the far left. The man in the right frame is Jack R. Thornell, the photographer who won the Pulitzer Prize for this image, as explained on verso. Meredith survived the attack. Martin Luther King and others completed the march on his behalf, and Meredith was able to join them in Jackson nineteen days later.