- Collection:
- Alabama Audiovisual Collection: 1965 Civil Rights Demonstrations
- Title:
- Voting rights demonstrations in Montgomery, Alabama, during the week of March 10, 1965
- Date of Original:
- 1965-03
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil Rights
Civil rights demonstrations - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Montgomery County, Montgomery, 32.36681, -86.29997
- Medium:
- moving images
- Type:
- MovingImage
- Description:
- Part 1 of the consolidated Selma to Montgomery March footage.
Footage depicts the protests by Tuskegee University and Alabama State College (now University) students during the week of March 10, 1965. The footage opens with a shot of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church occupied by Tuskegee University students. The students surrounding the church are Alabama State College students who have marched from the nearby campus to show support for the Tuskegee students, who have been attempting to deliver a petition protesting the events of March 7, Bloody Sunday to Governor Wallace at the Capitol. The protestors who are arrested in the street are SNCC leader James Forman, in overalls with jacket, SNCC field secretary William Stuart (Stu) House, in light colored sweater and waist jacket, William Ware, in light colored trench coat, and (possibly) Charles Granville, wearing glasses. Raymond "Bill" Hall and Simuel Schutz, in gray hoodie, are taken by police from the crowd in front of the church. Beginning at the 1:28 minute mark the footage moves to a series of subsequent demonstrations by students from Tuskegee University and Alabama State, and from various northern colleges who had responded to SNCC leader James Forman's call to come to Montgomery (it was spring break week) to show support for the Voting Rights cause. The footage here was shot on March 15 and 16 and occurred in front of and just south of the Capitol in Montgomery. On March 16 mounted police used nightsticks to disperse 600 SNCC students at Washington and High Streets. At the 15:26 minute mark footage moves to the protest and rally on March 17 at the Montgomery County Courthouse on Washington Street. Martin Luther King is inside the court house appealing to Judge Frank Johnson for the right to march from Selma to Montgomery. Just at the end of this footage, at the 16:38 minute mark, hand clapping erupts as Martin Luther King, Jr., obscured by the crowd, makes the announcement that Judge Johnson has ruled that the Selma to Montgomery march can proceed. - Local Identifier:
- S_M_March_part_1
- Metadata URL:
- https://digital.archives.alabama.gov/digital/collection/records/id/470/
- Language:
- eng
- Contributing Institution:
- Alabama. Department of Archives and History
- Rights:
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