Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
Marchers Settling at Camp with National guard Helicopter Overhead, Selma to Montgomery March
1965
Alabama, United States, North and Central America
Source catalog description
This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.
A black-and-white digital image of two men holding an American flag with a National Guard Helicopter in the sky. The man seen in the front of the image is featured from behind, wearing a grey sweat shirt and has a hair brush in his back right jeans pocket. He is holding the edges of the flag to keep it spread flat. The man holding the other side of the flag can only partially be seen. They are standing on a grass lawn and people sitting and standing can be seen in the background on the right of the image.
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Catalog metadata · CC0 · Source checked 2026-10-13
Catalog reference: 2015.129.65
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