Scores of pickets marched through the Loop in silent procession Friday in protest over the fatal beating of the Reverend James Reeb in Selma, Alabama. They were led by six men bearing a gray mock coffin, which was labeled with a sign: "God-- go South." Demonstrators carried other cardboard signs. By the time the demonstrators reached the Federal Building, the procession had grown to nearly 90 people, about half Negro and half white.

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Scores of pickets marched through the Loop in silent procession Friday in protest over the fatal beating of the Reverend James Reeb in Selma, Alabama. They were led by six men bearing a gray mock coffin, which was labeled with a sign: "God-- go South." Demonstrators carried other cardboard signs. By the time the demonstrators reached the Federal Building, the procession had grown to nearly 90 people, about half Negro and half white.
Scores of pickets marched through the Loop in silent procession Friday in protest over the fatal beating of the Reverend James Reeb in Selma, Alabama. They were led by six men bearing a gray mock coffin, which was labeled with a sign: "God-- go South." Demonstrators carried other cardboard signs. By the time the demonstrators reached the Federal Building, the procession had grown to nearly 90 people, about half Negro and half white.
DateMarch 12, 1965
MediumVintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall: 8 5/8 × 10 5/8 in. (21.9 × 27 cm) Image: 8 5/8 × 10 1/8 in. (21.9 × 25.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2022.15.265
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Provenance 2022: Hamilton College (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art)
Markings Verso, center: "[DAILY NEWS / MAR 12 1965]"
Verso, center: "Scores of pickets marched / through the Loop in silent pro- / cession Friday in protest over / the fatal beating of the Rev. / James Reeb in Selma, Ala. / They were led by six men / bearing a gray mock coffin, / which was labeled with a sign: / "God-- go South." / Demonstrators carried other / cardboard signs: "We demand / to be free," "Stop murder -- / free Selma" and "Who will be / next?" / By the time the demonstra- / tors reached the Federal Build- / ing, the procession had grown / to nearly 90 people, about half / Negro and half white." (newspaper pasted)
Verso, center: "Pickets' coffin dramatizes their protest over fatal beating of the / Rev. James Reeb in Selma, Ala." (newspaper pasted)
Verso, center: "[RRV 43267]"

Inscribed Verso, bottom left corner: "CVL-IL-104 1200"
Verso, top center: "Civil rights Demonstrations / Chgo-1965"
Sit down protest: As police came to stop youth from inciting other demonstrators, he threw himself on the ground and now is carried to the wagon by police, 74th and Lowe, Chicago.
Sit down protest: As police came to stop youth from inciting other demonstrators, he threw himself on the ground and now is carried to the wagon by police, 74th and Lowe, Chicago.
Date: August 2, 1963
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2022.15.283
Anti-war demonstrator is picked up by police for removal to jail here early today when 20 of the demonstrators were arrested as they tried to invade an induction center. A group of some 50 to 75 marchers had been parading in front of the center when some of them broke ranks and headed for the doors
Anti-war demonstrator is picked up by police for removal to jail here early today when 20 of the demonstrators were arrested as they tried to invade an induction center. A group of some 50 to 75 marchers had been parading in front of the center when some of them broke ranks and headed for the doors
Date: October 19, 1967
Medium: Vintage United Press International telephoto with added pigment
Object number: 2022.15.259
Weary and Muddy But More to Go: two civil rights marchers rest with muddy feet as they face the fourth lap of their protest march on the Alabama state capitol at Montgomery today. They have nearly half of the distance to cover before reaching the capitol Thursday. They are 14-year-old Cornelius Courtland, left, of Selma, where march started Sunday, and Bruce Hartford, 21, of New Haven.
Weary and Muddy But More to Go: two civil rights marchers rest with muddy feet as they face the fourth lap of their protest march on the Alabama state capitol at Montgomery today. They have nearly half of the distance to cover before reaching the capitol Thursday. They are 14-year-old Cornelius Courtland, left, of Selma, where march started Sunday, and Bruce Hartford, 21, of New Haven.
Date: March 24, 1965
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2022.15.279
A crowd watches the demonstrators returning to the city hall steps, Danville, Virginia
A crowd watches the demonstrators returning to the city hall steps, Danville, Virginia
Danny Lyon
Date: 1963; printed 2015
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2018.12.75
Police move in with night sticks to break up group of demonstrators who tried to break police lines after marching on Central High School August 12th. Firemen with high pressure hoses and police put down the riotous protest
Police move in with night sticks to break up group of demonstrators who tried to break police lines after marching on Central High School August 12th. Firemen with high pressure hoses and police put down the riotous protest
Unknown artist, American
Date: 1959
Medium: Vintage United Press International Telephoto with airbrushing
Object number: 2022.15.117
Two hundred Negroes, mostly teenagers, were arrested after police broke up a noisy racial demonstration in the lobby of the First National Bank. The demonstrators were arrested when they sat down on the floor of the bank lobby. The protest was against alleged employment discrimination by the bank, East St. Louis, Illinois.
Two hundred Negroes, mostly teenagers, were arrested after police broke up a noisy racial demonstration in the lobby of the First National Bank. The demonstrators were arrested when they sat down on the floor of the bank lobby. The protest was against alleged employment discrimination by the bank, East St. Louis, Illinois.
Bettmann Archive
Date: August 15, 1963
Medium: Vintage United Press International telephoto
Object number: 2022.15.260
Prayers to Bridge Barbed Wire: a Buddhist monk and a nun pray as they kneel with some 200 demonstrators on a street in Saigon today. In a new wave of protests against the government of Premier Ky, some 10,000 persons gathered outside the Buddhist Institute and began a march toward the center of South Vietnam?s capital. Troops broke up the demonstration and ringed this group with barbed wire
Prayers to Bridge Barbed Wire: a Buddhist monk and a nun pray as they kneel with some 200 demonstrators on a street in Saigon today. In a new wave of protests against the government of Premier Ky, some 10,000 persons gathered outside the Buddhist Institute and began a march toward the center of South Vietnam?s capital. Troops broke up the demonstration and ringed this group with barbed wire
Unknown artist
Date: May 29, 1966
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2023.12.184
Crowd of demonstrators kneel in prayer outside city hall after march from Soldier Field in protest to alleged school segregation in Chicago. March took place two-day (of) school boycott when court order blocked it
Crowd of demonstrators kneel in prayer outside city hall after march from Soldier Field in protest to alleged school segregation in Chicago. March took place two-day (of) school boycott when court order blocked it
Date: May 2, 1962
Medium: Vintage United Press International telephoto
Object number: 2022.15.262
Crowd of demonstrators kneel in prayer outside city hall after march from Soldier Field in protest to alleged school segregation in Chicago. March took place two-day (of) school boycott when court order blocked it
Crowd of demonstrators kneel in prayer outside city hall after march from Soldier Field in protest to alleged school segregation in Chicago. March took place two-day (of) school boycott when court order blocked it
Date: June 10, 1965
Medium: Vintage United Press International telephoto
Object number: 2022.15.264
Another Day, Another Confrontation: A large crowd of demonstrators is stopped by a thin line of county police as they attempted to march to the courthouse. They were halted by Sheriff Jim Clark and told they could proceed on an individual basis if they had voter registration business there. City police later replaced the sheriff's men. A contingent of state police stands ready in foreground.
Another Day, Another Confrontation: A large crowd of demonstrators is stopped by a thin line of county police as they attempted to march to the courthouse. They were halted by Sheriff Jim Clark and told they could proceed on an individual basis if they had voter registration business there. City police later replaced the sheriff's men. A contingent of state police stands ready in foreground.
Date: March 15, 1965
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2022.15.276
Photo from inside ante-room of Mayor Richard J. Daley's office shows entrance of Congress of Racial Equality demonstrators being barred by police. Garrick Madison (white shirt) 18, spokesman for the group, talks with Col. Jack Reilly (white hair), the mayor's director of special events, who eventually allowed Madison and four other representatives of CORE to enter the suite for an interview with Daley. Daley later told reporters: "They asked for my co-operation with regarding the Board of Education, and I told them it is not my policy to interfere with the Board of Education." Reporters and city hall workers are amidst CORE group outside office, Chicago.
Photo from inside ante-room of Mayor Richard J. Daley's office shows entrance of Congress of Racial Equality demonstrators being barred by police. Garrick Madison (white shirt) 18, spokesman for the group, talks with Col. Jack Reilly (white hair), the mayor's director of special events, who eventually allowed Madison and four other representatives of CORE to enter the suite for an interview with Daley. Daley later told reporters: "They asked for my co-operation with regarding the Board of Education, and I told them it is not my policy to interfere with the Board of Education." Reporters and city hall workers are amidst CORE group outside office, Chicago.
Date: July 22, 1963
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2022.15.282
Photograph by John Bentham.
Procession des religieuses de Port-Royal à la feste du S. Sacrement (Procession of the Nuns of Port-
Royal on the Feast of the Holy Sacrament)
Louise-Magdeleine Horthemels
Date: 1709
Medium: Engraving
Object number: 1994.68