Title from caption on object: “Marchers Pass Sign Attacking King”
March 24, 1965
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Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
Ross J. Kelbaugh Collection, Purchased with support from the Ford Foundation
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Dimensions
image: 16.9 × 23.3 cm (6 5/8 × 9 3/16 in.)
sheet: 20.5 × 25.4 cm (8 1/16 × 10 in.) -
Accession
2023.39.169
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Ross Kelbaugh, Marriottsville, MD; NGA purchase, 2023.
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Inscriptions
by unknown hand, top center in blue ink underlined: Alabama march; along top edge printed in image: (MXR-6) MONTGOMERY, ALA., MAR. 24--MARCHERS PASS SIGN ATTACKING KING--Civil / rights marchers pass billboard along highway attacking their leader, Dr. / Martin Luther King, which purports to show him "at Communist Training / School." Reports have it that the signs were erected by a / segregationist group. (APWirephoto) (See AP Wire Story) (wfa 4 1215 stf) 1965; on verso, by Ross Kelbaugh, top right in graphite: 39.1.RKUx / AF115A; upper left Historic Images barcode sticker perpendicular; by unknown hand, center left in blue ink perpendicular: Selma, Alabama / March; center stamped in red ink perpendicular: RETURN to: / CHRONICLE FILES / APR 1 1965