Bob Fitch photography archive -- Civil Rights Movement: Black Candidates in Alabama, 1965-1966
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Immediately after the Selma Civil Rights March and passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and affiliated groups began a project in Alabama's Black Belt counties to register voters and recruit candidates for public office. SCLC staffer Bob Fitch was assigned the task of photographing the candidates for use in campaign materials and for distribution to the media. As the first Black political candidates since Reconstruction, these men and women risked great harm by running. This gallery contains portraits of primary and electoral candidates and their families in rural Alabama communities. Unfortunately, due to lost records, identification for many of the people photographed is limited.
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