- Titles Untitled press print (Montgomery, Alabama—Willie Ricks) (Descriptive)
- Medium gelatin silver print
- Dimensions 8 3/4 x 8 1/8 in. (22.2 x 20.6 cm)
- Credit Line Museum purchase, 2011.57
- Work Type photograph
- Classification Photographs
- Inscription Newspaper clipping affixed to verso, center, reads: Telling It / to ‘Bama / Troopers / Mincing no words, a / Negro demonstrator / who identified himself / as Willie Ricks, pleads / with Alabama state / troopers in Mont - gomery to permit a / group of fellow civil / rights pickets to walk / on the sidewalk at the / state’s capitol. The / troopers, however / stood their ground and / refused to grant the re- / quest. Montgomery city / police later made some / arrests at the scene, but / no violence was re- / ported in Friday’s / demonstration. Plans / moved ahead today for / the start of tomorrow’s / civil rights march from / Selma to Montgomery. Stamped in blue ink on verso, center right: MAR 20 1965 P Printed in blue wax crayon on verso, center right: 14B Stamped in blue ink upside down on verso, lower left: 1965 MAR 20 AM 5 23 / ART DEPT Various black wax crayon marks [illegible] printed behind affixed newspaper clipping on verso