Protest March from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, USA

This photograph was printed in 2020 for Magnum Square Prints, as part of a benefit sale--half the proceeds went to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

The artist writes: This photograph was taken during the 1965 protest marches from Selma to the Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery. Martin Luther King Jr. led a group of African American, nonviolent marchers to exercise their constitutional right to vote, in defiance of segregationist repression. This was a watershed moment in the U.S. civil rights movement. I came across this young demonstrator, wrapped in a flag, protesting racism; behind him is Father Sherrill Smith of San Antonio, a white catholic priest who protested against injustice for most of his life.