Photo, Print, Drawing "I got one of 'em just as she almost made it back to the church" / Herblock.
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Title
- "I got one of 'em just as she almost made it back to the church" / Herblock.
Summary
- Editorial cartoon showing a "Selma Alabama Special Storm Trooper" gloating as he gleefully washes off his billy club, his helmet sits on a shelf, a gas mask hangs from his belt.
Names
- Block, Herbert, 1909-2001, artist
Created / Published
- 1965 March 9, c1965.
Headings
- - Selma to Montgomery Rights March--(1965 :--Selma, Ala.)
- - African Americans--Civil rights--1960-1970
- - Race discrimination--Alabama--Selma--1960-1970
- - Voter registration--Alabama--Selma--1960-1970
- - Police--Alabama--Selma--1960-1970
- - Riot control--Alabama--Selma--1960-1970
- - Police brutality--Alabama--Selma--1960-1970
- - Nightsticks--1960-1970
Headings
- Editorial cartoons--1960-1970.
- Ink drawings--1960-1970.
Genre
- Editorial cartoons--1960-1970
- Ink drawings--1960-1970
Notes
- - Caption label from exhibit "Herblock's History Animal Farm": In 1965, Alabama became the focus of an intense effort to register blacks to vote. On March 7, 1965, over 600 marchers for voting rights left Brown's Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Selma on their way to Montgomery, fifty-four miles away. On this "Bloody Sunday," state troopers attacked the marchers as they reached the Edmund Pettus Bridge at the Alabama River. Nearly 100 of the marchers were hurt as they ran back toward the church. Television cameras captured the violence, making Selma an overnight symbol of racial oppression. It led President Lyndon Johnson to push for the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
- - Distributed by Hall Syndicate, Inc.
- - Published in the Washington Post, March 9, 1965.
- - Copyright 1965 by Herblock, The Washington Post.
- - Forms part of: Herbert L. Block Collection (Library of Congress).
- - Exhibited in: Herblock's History: Political Cartoons from the Crash to the Millennium, Library of Congress 2000-2001. (57)
Medium
- 1 drawing on layered paper : ink, graphite, and opaque white over graphite underdrawing ; 57.5 x 38.4 cm (sheet)
Call Number/Physical Location
- BLOCK, no. 14350 (C size) [P&P]
Source Collection
- Block, Herbert, 1909-2001. Herbert L. Block collection (Library of Congress)
Repository
- Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id
- ppmsc 03412 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsc.03412
- cph 3c27073 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c27073
Library of Congress Control Number
- 00652223
Reproduction Number
- LC-DIG-ppmsc-03412 (digital file from original drawing) LC-USZ62-127073 (b&w film copy neg.)
Rights Advisory
- Publication may be restricted. For information see "Herbert Block ("Herblock") Rights and Restrictions," https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/271_herb.html
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