Movement Photographs of
John Kouns

All photographs © John Kouns.

 

March on Washington, 1963.

March on Washington, 1963.

March on Washington, 1963.

March on Washington, 1963.

Dorie Ladner at the funeral of children murdered in Birmingham, September, 1963.

"Freedom Day" in Selma, October, 1963. Blacks line up at the courthouse to apply to register to vote.

"Freedom Day" in Selma, October, 1963. SNCC Field Secretaries Avery Williams and Chico Neblett arrested for trying to bring water to voter applicants waiting for hours in line at the courthouse.

SNCC members arrested for holding up signs urging voter registration.

Selma Voting Rights Campaign, 1965. Young students march for voting rights and are placed under arrest.

Selma Voting Rights Campaign, 1965. Arrested for supporting voting rights.

Selma Voting Rights Campaign, 1965. High-school students leading freedom songs at a mass meeting in Brown Chapel.

Selma Voting Rights Campaign, 1965. Sheriffs deputies and possemen ready to suppress any sign of protest.

Selma Voting Rights Campaign, 1965. Alabama state troopers blocking a march.

The March to Montgomery, 1965. Approaching the Edmund Pettus bridge in Selma.

The March to Montgomery, 1965.

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