Artist

Danny Lyon

Title

Sheriff Jim Clark arrests two demonstrators who displayed placards on the steps of the federal building in Selma

Date

ca. 1908

Artist

Anonymous/ ACME photo

Title

Height of battle between police and strikers in the Central Market at Minneapolis, shows C. Arthur Lyman, business and civic leader who was serving as a special deputy, being beaten to death. Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date

May 23, 1934

Artist

Artist Unknown

Title

The Battle is On: Police and anti-war demonstrators mix it up on Michigan Avenue near the Conrad Hilton Hotel. The attempt to keep the lid on Chicago blew sky high when demonstrators, determined to make it to the Democratic National Convention site, broke through the police and national guard lines. Police used rifle butts, tear gas and clubs to battle the demonstrators

Date

August 28, 1968

Artist

Charles Moore

Title

Views of the Selma March

Date

1965

Artist

Artist Unknown

Title

Strikers Behind Bars: Some of the workers from the International Harvester Twine Plant in Chicago, wind up behind bars, after police broke up the demonstrations lasting 2 days

Date

July 31, 1952

Extended Read

In July of 1952, Chicago’s McCormick International Harvester Twine Plant announced its plan to move its factory headquarters to New Orleans, to allegedly cut down on production and transportation costs. In response to the first wave of workers who were laid off, the local 141 Farm Equipment Workers UE Union organized a non-violent sit-in to protest the loss of 865 jobs and make demands for severance pay. Of the 250 who participated in the sit-in, around 150 strikers were arrested, charged with disorderly conduct, and held on a $10 bond. While the sit-in did not halt the plant’s move to New Orleans, laid-off workers gained severance pay and preferential hiring at other McCormick plants.

Artist

Danny Lyon

Title

Leesburg Stockade

Date

1963

Extended Read

Fifteen girls, ages 12 to 15, were arrested at protests in Americus, Georgia in July of 1963 and taken to an  abandoned Civil War stockade in Leesburg, Georgia. Danny Lyon, who learned of the girls’ location, snuck into the stockade and clandestinely took photographs of the small room in which they were held. After Lyon developed the photographs, SNCC gave them to a Congressman and the girls were released within days. Years later, Lyon reflected on the power of the captured images from that day, “In Americus, my pictures had actually accomplished something. They had gotten people out of jail.”

Statement from Henrietta Fuller:

“I am 13 years old and was in Leesburg stockade from August 31 to September 8. There were 32 kids in there with me. There were no beds, no mattresses, no blankets, pillows, no sheets. The floor was cold. You lay down for while and soon it starts hurting you so you sit up for a while and it starts hurting so you have to walk around for a while.”

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Statement from Henrietta Fuller, held in the stockade for 9 days. 

Artist

Anonymous

Title

Selma, Alabama, "Marchers continue their hike."

Date

February 3, 1965

Extended Read

Beginning in March of 1965, between 2,000 and 3,000 marchers began their 54-mile hike from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, to fight for the right for the Black vote in America. After crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, marchers were met by Alabama state troopers who blocked their path, beat protestors with whips and batons, and sprayed them with tear gas. 

Artist

Anonymous/ International News Photo

Title

Singing "freedom songs" under police guard, hundreds of schoolchildren march down the middle of the street toward a detention compund after their mass arrest in front of the Dallas County courthouse, Selma, Alabama

Date

February 3, 1965

Extended Read

Beginning in March of 1965, between 2,000 and 3,000 marchers began their 54-mile hike from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, to fight for the right for the Black vote in America. After crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, marchers were met by Alabama state troopers who blocked their path, beat protestors with whips and batons, and sprayed them with tear gas.

Artist

Anonymous

Title

The Selma to Montgomery Marches: marchers crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge on "Bloody Sunday," Selma

Date

March 22, 1965