You’re looking for something where the design of the photo has that quality." “And you’re looking for that moment when everyone has a particular look that has a sense of meaning. In the picture of King linking arms with other civil rights leaders, "the first thing you think of is you’ve got to walk backwards very quickly to be able to keep making these photographs,” Schapiro said. Schapiro recalled shooting 12 to 14 rolls of film that day, and would send it through baggage on American Airlines back to the Life magazine office each night, hoping that his pictures would run in the following week’s issue. The Voting Rights Act was signed into law that August. Johnson called for legislation protecting the voting rights of African Americans. Following “Bloody Sunday,” President Lyndon B. Although the image was not published in 1965, it has come to represent the march that marked a turning point in the movement. The third march, documented in Schapiro’s photo, took place on March 21. King knelt and prayed and decided to turn back. This first took place on March 7, a day that would later be called “Bloody Sunday.” Alabama State Troopers charged into the crowd with batons, injuring scores of protesters.ĭuring the second march, protesters crossed the bridge, but when they reached the end of it, the troopers were stationed there.
There were three attempts to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.
King and the Southern Christian Leadership Council organized the march to bring attention to discrimination against black voters. “Only 300 people were allowed to participate in the third march, and there was a sense that violence might occur,” he told ABC News recently ahead of MLK Day. Schapiro covered two of the Selma-to-Montgomery marches for Life magazine, and while he said he knew the events were important, he had no idea the impact the images would eventually have.
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