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DimensionsOverall: 5 5/8 x 7 in. (14.3 x 17.8 cm)
Accession Number 2025.237
Classificationsphotograph
ProvenanceJeff Perry; Des Moines Art Center [gift from the previous, 2025]
Several Hundred demonstrators marched on the Washington State Capitol Sunday in protest over treatment of Negroes in the South and the slaying of the Reverend James Reeb, Boston Unitarian minister, in Selma, Alabama last week. A letter from Governor Dan Evans was read to the throng. The governor decried the situation in the South, but warned against smugness in this state, saying much needs to be done, March 16, 1965
Image Not Available for Several Hundred demonstrators marched on the Washington State Capitol Sunday in protest over treatment of Negroes in the South and the slaying of the Reverend James Reeb, Boston Unitarian minister, in Selma, Alabama last week. A letter from Governor Dan Evans was read to the throng. The governor decried the situation in the South, but warned against smugness in this state, saying much needs to be done, March 16, 1965
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Gustave Doré
March 22, 1873