March from Selma to Montgomery, 1965
Title:
March from Selma to Montgomery, 1965
Subject:
activism, scholar, public intellectual
Description:
On March 21, 1965, John Hope Franklin participated in the March from Selma to Montgomery, walking shoulder to shoulder with a group of US historians amid a crowd of over 8,000 people. It was the third major march in Alabama that year led by Dr. Martin Luther King and a number of civil rights organizations in Alabama to bring attention to need for a federal voting rights act.
Creator:
Dennis Hopper
Rights:
©Dennis Hopper Courtesy The Hopper Art Trust www.dennishopper.com
Date:
1965
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