An Army Travels on its Stomach: A soldier, on duty to guard civil rights marchers on their voting protest trek from Selma, Alabama to the state Capital at Montgomery, watches marchers go by as he eats a meal brought to him on the spot. The marchers passing the halfway mark on their 54 mile hike plan to reach Montgomery on Thursday

Skip to main content
An Army Travels on its Stomach: A soldier, on duty to guard civil rights marchers on their voting protest trek from Selma, Alabama to the state Capital at Montgomery, watches marchers go by as he eats a meal brought to him on the spot. The marchers passing the halfway mark on their 54 mile hike plan to reach Montgomery on Thursday
An Army Travels on its Stomach: A soldier, on duty to guard civil rights marchers on their voting protest trek from Selma, Alabama to the state Capital at Montgomery, watches marchers go by as he eats a meal brought to him on the spot. The marchers passing the halfway mark on their 54 mile hike plan to reach Montgomery on Thursday
DateMarch 23, 1965
MediumVintage Associated Press wirephoto
DimensionsOverall: 8 1/8 × 10 in. (20.6 × 25.4 cm) Image: 6 7/8 × 9 1/2 in. (17.5 × 24.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2022.15.278
Not on view
Collections

Additional Details

Provenance 2022: Hamilton College (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art)
Markings Recto, top: "MRX-1) MONTGOMERY, ALA,. MARCH 23- AN ARMY TRAVELS ON ITS STOMACH - A soldier, on duty to guard / civil rights marchers on their voting protest trek from Selma, Ala., to the state capitol at / Montgomery, watches marchers go by as he eats a meal brought to him on the spot. The marchers, / passing the halfway mark on their 54 mile hike today, plan to reach Montgomery Thursday. / (AP Wirephoto) (See AP Wire Story) (wfa 3 1715 stf) 1965" (typewritten)
Verso, center: "MAR 25 1965"

Published References Illustrated: Associated Press ID # 6503230317
Inscribed Verso, bottom left corner: "CVL-AL-029 2000"
Verso, bottom right: "Race Seg / Selma March"
Chicago police take charge of a heckler as civil rights marchers leave Cicero and re-enter Chicago, Illinois.
Date: September 4, 1966
Medium: Gelatin silver print resin-coated
Object number: 2022.15.261
Martin Luther King, Jr., Montgomery, Alabama, from the portfolio "Passing Torches: The Diverse Sources of Documentary"
Dan Weiner
Date: 1956, published 1998
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2001.6
Selma to Montgomery March: right-to-vote camp site. No guardsmen are in evidence. But they are all around - watching.
Date: March 23, 1965
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2022.15.280
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
Construction worker swings hammer from beam as another worker watches
Jacques Lowe
Date: c. 1955
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2022.15.66