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Entitled: "African-American man carrying a child on his shoulders with a placard: President Johnson go to Selma now!" On March 15, 1965, addressing a joint session of Congress, President Johnson called for new legislation to guarantee every American's right to vote. The same day roughly 15, 000 marchers paraded in Harlem, New York, to support civil rights efforts in Alabama. The three Selma to Montgomery marches in 1965 were part of the Selma Voting Rights Movement and led to the passage that year of the Voting Rights Act, a landmark federal achievement of the 1960s American Civil Rights Movement. Activists publicized the three protest marches to walk the 54 mile highway from Selma to the Alabama state capital of Montgomery as showing the desire of black American citizens to exercise their constitutional right to vote, in defiance of segregationist repression. Photographed for the New York World Telegram & Sun photo by Stanley Wolfson, March 15, 1965.
