Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
Police Dogs Attack Demonstrators, Birmingham Protests
1963; printed later
Birmingham, Jefferson County, 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 photograph of African American men and women in the streets running away from police and dogs. There is a woman in the foreground wearing a flowered skirt and a white top and she is looking on as a white police officer raises his baton in his right hand in the direction of a young man. The police officer is holding the leash of a dog with his left hand. The print is signed [Charles Moore] on the back in pencil.
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Catalog reference: 2011.49.7
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