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Freedom Now, Civil Rights Photographs: 1963 - 1968

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Martin Luther King Jr., Selma, Alabama, 1965, Silver Gelatin Photograph
Jerome Smith at Church, 1965, Silver Gelatin Photograph
Selma March, Flag, 1965, Silver Gelatin Photograph
”We Shall Overcome,” Students Leaving for ”Summer of '64,” Oxford, Ohio, 1964    , Silver Gelatin Photograph
On the Road, Selma March, Alabama, 1965, Silver Gelatin Photograph
Freedom Now, "Summer of '64," 1964, Silver Gelatin Photograph
James Baldwin, God is Love, New York, 1963, Silver Gelatin Photograph
Boy with Flag, Selma March, 1965, Silver Gelatin Photograph
The Selma March, 1965, Silver Gelatin Photograph
Nuns at the March, Selma, 1965, Silver Gelatin Photograph
Entering Montgomery, 1965, Silver Gelatin Photograph
Crowd Praying on Steps of Church, Clarksdale, Mississipi, 1965, Silver Gelatin Photograph
Demonstrator (Laughing) and Trooper, Philadelphia, Mississippi, 1964, Silver Gelatin Photograph
James Baldwin with James Meredith, Mississippi, 1963, Silver Gelatin Photograph
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., His Wife, Coretta, Rosa Parks, and Other Activists March for Voting Rights, 1965, Silver Gelatin Photograph
Selma Marchers in the Rain, 1965, Silver Gelatin Photograph
Honor King: End Racism, Memphis, 1968, Silver Gelatin Photograph
Stop Police Killings, Selma, 1965, Silver Gelatin Photograph
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. marches in the rain with a fellow clergyman, during the Selma to Montgomery Civil Rights March, 1965, Silver Gelatin Photograph
Demonstrator (Laughing) and Trooper, Philadelphia, Mississippi, 1964, Silver Gelatin Photograph
James Baldwin in Harlem, 1963, Silver Gelatin Photograph
Andrew Young, Martin Luther King Jr., and Ralph Abernathy in Wagon, Selma, 1965, Silver Gelatin Photograph
Martin Luther King Jr. with Advisors, Selma, AL, 1965, Silver Gelatin Photograph
James Baldwin, Colored Entrance, Durham, North Carolina, 1963, Silver Gelatin Photograph
James Baldwin, Jojo's Fried Chicken, New Orleans, 1963, Silver Gelatin Photograph
James Baldwin with Abandoned Boy, Durham, North Carolina, 1963, Silver Gelatin Photograph
Brooklyn CORE Car Stall-In, 1964, Silver Gelatin Photograph
Police Line at Riot, Brooklyn, 1964, Silver Gelatin Photograph
Brooklyn, New York, July 16, 1964, Silver Gelatin Photograph
James Baldwin, Do You Love Me, 1963, Silver Gelatin Photograph
Brooklyn, New York, July 16, 1964, Silver Gelatin Photograph
James Baldwin and the NAACP's Medgar Evers, Mississippi, 1963, Silver Gelatin Photograph
Jerome Smith Inspects Bullet Holes in Door, 1963, Silver Gelatin Photograph
Civil Rights Worker's Station Wagon, Philadelphia, Mississippi, 1964, Silver Gelatin Photograph
Boys Laughing on Bridge, Philadelphia, Mississippi, 1964, Silver Gelatin Photograph
James Baldwin and His Nephew at a Funeral, Harlem, 1963, Silver Gelatin Photograph
The Home of A.D. King (MLK's Brother) after a bombing, May, 1963, Silver Gelatin Photograph
The bombed-out remains of the 16th Street Baptist Church, which claimed the lives of four little girls, May 1963, Silver Gelatin Photograph
The Worst Is Yet To Come, New York, c. 1968, Silver Gelatin Photograph
James Baldwin outside Elijah Muhammad's Mosque of Islam, Durham, North Carolina, 1963, Silver Gelatin Photograph
James Baldwin, New Orleans, 1963, Silver Gelatin Photograph
Selma Priest and Boy, Montgomery, March 25, 1965
Martin Luther King Jr. (with Flag), Selma March, 1965, Silver Gelatin Photograph
"I Ain't Goin...," New York, 1968, Silver Gelatin Photograph
James Baldwin speaking with a boy in New Orleans, 1963, Silver Gelatin Photograph
Dr. King Crosses the Edmund Pettus Bridge with Reverends Ralph Abernathy & Fred Shuttlesworth, 1965, Silver Gelatin Photograph, Edition of 25
James Baldwin dancing the "hitchhike" with a CORE worker, New Orleans, 1963, Silver Gelatin Photograph
Dr. King Crosses the Edmund Pettus Bridge with Reverends Ralph Abernathy and Fred Shuttlesworth, 1965, Silver Gelatin Photograph, Edition of 25
John Lewis, Dr. King, and Andrew Young, Alabama, 1965, Silver Gelatin Photograph
Better with Coke, Watching Selma March, 1965, Silver Gelatin Photograph
James Baldwin watching his neices play, New York, 1963, Silver Gelatin Photograph
James Baldwin with his nephew and namesake outside Lewis H. Michaux's African National Memorial Bookstore, Harlem, January, 1963, Silver Gelatin Photograph
Martin Luther King Jr. and Group Entering Montgomery, 1965, Silver Gelatin Photograph
John Lewis, Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Clarksdale, 1963, Silver Gelatin Photograph
Nonviolent Protestor, Freedom Summer voter registration, Mississippi, June, 1964, Silver Gelatin Photograph
Willie Ricks, SNCC mobilizer, Selma, 1965, Silver Gelatin Photograph
Dave Dennis, with Jerome Smith and Rudy Lombard brought the New Orleans CORE to Clarksdale, 1964, Silver Gelatin Photograph
White Women, Arkansas, 1961, Silver Gelatin Photograph
Organizers at "Doc" Aaron Henry's Drugstore, Clarksdale, 1963, Silver Gelatin Photograph
Onlookers on the Corner, Montgomery, 1965, Silver Gelatin Photograph
Poor Children, Southside, Chicago, c. 1960, Silver Gelatin Photograph
Rosa Parks at Montgomery Capitol, 1965, Silver Gelatin Photograph
Woman Reading to Children, Freedom Summer, 1964, Silver Gelatin Photograph
Coretta Scott King & Martin Luther King, Jr on stage at the Montgomery capitol building, March 25, 1965, Silver Gelatin Photograph
A. Phillip Randolph, John Lewis, Coretta Scott King and Martin Luther King Jr. sitting on the steps of the Montgomery Capitol at the conclusion of the Selma March, Alabama, 1965, Silver Gelatin Photograph
"Vote," Selma March, 1965, Silver Gelatin Photograph
Jerome Smith, Rueville, Mississippi, 1965, Silver Gelatin Photograph
Rosa Parks, Selma March, 1965, Silver Gelatin Photograph
"Negroes are entitled to...," 1964, Silver Gelatin Photograph
Two Girls Watching the March, Selma, 1965, Silver Gelatin Photograph
King and Abernathy Sing "We Shall Overcome," Brown Church, Selma, 1965, Silver Gelatin Photograph
Jackie Robinson, Rosa Parks, and Other Activists March on Washington, 1963, Silver Gelatin Photograph
Minister's Hands to His Face, Clarksdale, 1965, Silver Gelatin Photograph
I Am A Man, 1968, Silver Gelatin Photograph
Uncle Sam, Selma March, Montgomery, Alabama, 1965, Silver Gelatin Photograph
"We Shall Overcome," Clarksdale, Mississippi, 1965, Silver Gelatin Photograph
Martin Luther King Jr. Speaks in Birmingham, 1963, Silver Gelatin Photograph
Press Conference Following Dr. King's Assissination, Memphis, Tennesse, 1968, Silver Gelatin Photograph
Killing of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Triptych), Memphis, Tennessee, 1968, Silver Gelatin Photograph
Alabama's segregationist Govenor George Wallace, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, 1963, Silver Gelatin Photograph
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Alabama, 1965, Archival Pigment Print
Martin Luther King Jr,'s Motel Room Hours After He Was Shot, Memphis, Tennessee, 1968, Silver Gelatin Photograph
Run King Out of Alabama, 1965, Silver Gelatin Photograph
Thousands crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge with Dr. King, 1965, Archival Pigment Print
Watching Selma March, 1965, Silver Gelatin Photograph
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