- Collection:
- Florida Memory Project
- Title:
- Former Governor LeRoy Collins mediating during civil rights march - Selma, Alabama
- Date of Original:
- 1965
- Subject:
- Civil rights demonstrations--Alabama--Selma
Civil rights workers--Alabama--Selma
African Americans--Civil rights
Ex-governors--Florida
Selma to Montgomery Rights March (1965 : Selma, Ala.) - People:
- Collins, LeRoy
Young, Andrew, 1932-
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990
Lewis, John, 1940-2020
King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006 - Location:
- United States, Florida, Leon County, Tallahassee, 30.43826, -84.28073
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Description:
- Note John Lewis (later U.S. Representative) in second row at far left.
Accompanying note: "Collins' role as mediator in the Selma, Alabama march doomed his later political career. Conservative southerners roasted him as a turncoat when photographs showed him with civil rights leaders Andrew Young, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King, and Ralph Abernathy."
Photographed in March 1965. - Local Identifier:
- Shelf number: G00745.
Image Number: GV013572 - Metadata URL:
- https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/128613
- Extent:
- 1 photoprint - b&w - 4 x 10 in.
- Original Collection:
- Reference Collection
- Contributing Institution:
- Florida State Archives
- Rights:
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