Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.

Demonstrators attacked with water cannons, Kelly Ingram Park, Birmingham, Alabama

Artist Charles Moore (American, 1931-2010)

Date1963

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsOverall, Image: 9 1/4 × 13 1/2 in. (23.5 × 34.3 cm)
Overall, Mat: 20 × 24 in. (50.8 × 61 cm)

ClassificationsPhotography

Credit LineMuseum purchase in memory of Alice R. and Sol B. Frank

Object number97.30

Terms

People
Water
Park
Civil Rights
Birmingham, AL
Black
White
Birmingham, Alabama

On View

Not on view

DescriptionGelatin silver print. A group of people in a park are attacked with water cannons during a demonstration.

Label TextCharles Moore American, 1931−2010 Demonstrators Attacked with Water Cannons, Kelly Ingram Park, Birmingham, Alabama, May 3, 1963 Gelatin silver print (photograph) On assignment for LIFE magazine, Charles Moore photographed dog and water cannon attacks on student demonstrators in Birmingham, Alabama in May 1963. Many were published in an 11-page spread in the magazine’s May 17, 1963 issue under the title “They Fight a Fire that Won’t Go Out.” This march began at the nearby 16th Street Baptist Church, which was bombed by white supremacists later that year. Museum purchase, in memory of Alice R. and Sol B. Frank 97.30