Selma to Montgomery March

Inscriptions

Stamped, on reverse, in black ink, lower center: PHOTOGRAPH BY JAMES KARALES / Title (stamped): Selma to Montgomery March (in graphite) / Date: (stamped) 1965 (in graphite) / Print Date: (stamped): 2008 (in graphite) / signed, in graphite: Monica Karales / c [encircled] Monica Karales (stamped) / All right reserved (stamped)

Label

The photograph documents a large group of people marching along a ridge. Above them, a dark, ominous cloud fills the sky, and photographer James Karales’s low angle gives the impression that this cloud might well engulf the marchers. The march was one of three conducted by activists who walked the fifty-four miles from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital of Montgomery to bring attention to the segregationist policies that kept Black US citizens from participating in elections. The first march was known as “Bloody Sunday” after some six hundred unarmed protestors were beaten and teargassed by state troopers and a vigilante posse. After the second march was suppressed and one of the leaders murdered, the final march was conducted under the protection of the National Guard, the FBI, and the US Marshals Service.

From the 2026 exhibition Inhabiting Historical Time: Slavery and Its Afterlives, curated by Amelia Kahl (Barbara C. & Harvey P. Hood 1918 Senior Curator of Academic Programming) and Alisa Swindell (Associate Curator of Photography)

Course History

WRIT 5, Quests, Carl Thum, Winter 2015

GEOG 72.01/AAAS 67.50/WGSS 66.09, Black Consciousness Black Feminism, Abby Neely, Spring 2022

HIST 10.04/AAAS 20.02, Dartmouth Black Lives, Julia Rabig and Darryl Barthe, Fall 2022

History 96.38, 20th Century US Social Movements, Julia Rabig, Fall 2023

Writing 5.20, Foundations at Dartmouth, Doug Moody, Fall 2024

Writing 5.23, Foundations of Dartmouth: Samson Occom, Edward Mitchell, and the History and Cultures of Native American, African American, and “Minority” Students at Dartmouth College, Doug Moody, Winter 2025

Exhibition History

A Space for Dialogue 92, Consent: Complicating Agency in Photography, Ashley Dotson, Class of 2018, Conroy Intern, Gina Campanelli, Class of 2018, Class of 1954 Intern, Kimberly Yu, Class of 2018, Homma Family Intern, Marie-Therese Cummings, Class of 2018, Levinson Intern, Tess McGuinness, Class of 2018, Conroy Intern, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 26-May 5, 2019.

Inhabiting Historical Time: Slavery and Its Afterlives, Jaffe and Hall Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 20, 2025 - July 11, 2026.

Publication History

Ashley Dotson, Class of 2018, Conroy Intern, Gina Campanelli, Class of 2018, Class of 1954 Intern, Kimberly Yu, Class of 2018, Homma Family Intern, Marie-Therese Cummings, Class of 2018, Levinson Intern, Tess McGuinness, Class of 2018, Conroy Intern, A Space for Dialogue 92, Consent, Complicating Agency in Photography, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2019.

Provenance

Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, New York, sold to present collection, 2014.

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