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- Title
- White segregationist attacks Dr. King.
- Description
- Text transcribed from caption: PC-32069 WHITE SEGREGATIONIST ATTACKS DR. KING SELMA, Ala. -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is confronted by a white segregationist outside the Dallas County Court House in Selma, Ala. The man later punched and kicked the noted Negro integration leader as he registered at a previously segregated hotel. The attacker was James Robinson, 26, of Birmingham, Ala., a member of the segregationist National States Rights Party. Police quickly seized Mr. Robinson and charged him with assault and disturbing the peace. Dr. King said later he was not hurt by the attack, suffering only a headache. The 1964 Nobel Peace Prize winner and leading advocate of the non-violent movement against discrimination was in Selma to assist a voter registration drive. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-1C-65-NAB)
- Creator Name(s)
- Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
- Date Created
- 1965, January 18, 1965, January 18, 1965
- Name Subject(s)
- Religious News Service--Archives., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., Robinson, Jimmy George.
- Topical Subject(s)
- Civil rights workers--Alabama--Selma., Civil rights movements--United States., Segregation--Alabama--Selma.
- Geographic subjects
- Alabama, Selma., United States., Alabama, Selma., Selma (Ala.), North and Central America--United States--Alabama--Dallas--Selma
- Physical Location
- RNS RG 1, image no. PC-32069; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
- Related Item
- Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982. --http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
- Identifier (local)
- RNS-RG1_PC-32069
- (PID) Persistent Identifier
- islandora:355931
- Title
- Selma march underway at long last.
- Description
- Text transcribed from caption: PC-32321 SELMA MARCH UNDERWAY AT LONG LAST SELMA, Ala. -- This aerial view shows a half-mile long column of civil rights demonstrators -- including many clergy -- on the first leg of a 50-mile march to Montgomery, the state capital, in support of the Negro voter registration drive. The marchers -- an estimate 3,500 left Selma -- are shown crossing the Pettus Bridge, where the first scheduled freedom march was broken up by state troopers on Sunday, March 7. This time, the march was authorized by a federal court and was protected by Army and federalized Alabama National Guard troops. Leading the walk was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which has been spearheading the long registration effort. At the end of the five-day march along U.S. Highway 80, Negro leaders hoped to present a civil rights petition to Gov. George C. Wallace, who earlier declined to protect the demonstrators. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (U-3D-65-NAB)
- Creator Name(s)
- United Press International. (publisher)
- Date Created
- 1965, March 21, 1965, March 21, 1965
- Name Subject(s)
- Religious News Service--Archives., Edmund Pettus Bridge National Historic Site (Selma, Ala.), Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
- Topical Subject(s)
- Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights demonstrations--Alabama--Selma., Bridges--Alabama--Selma., Voter registration--Alabama.
- Geographic subjects
- United States., Alabama, Selma., Alabama, Selma., Alabama., United States, Selma (Ala.), North and Central America--United States--Alabama--Dallas--Selma
- Physical Location
- RNS RG 1, image no. PC-32321; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
- Related Item
- Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982. --http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
- Identifier (local)
- RNS-RG1_PC-32321
- (PID) Persistent Identifier
- islandora:358343