Volunteering for Non-violence
Photograph
Volunteering for Non-violence
1961
Gelatin silver print
Image: 6 3/8 × 9 1/2 in. (16.2 × 24.2 cm)
Paper: 7 15/16 × 10 3/16 in. (20.1 × 25.8 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0500
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label on verso, C [upside down]: 6-61 15) VOLUNTEERING FOR "NON-VIOLENCE": This is what happens behind \ the scenes when a "freedom ride" is organized. Here in a Montgomery, \ Alabama home, white and Negro students meet to discuss tactics for their \ next "non-violent" demonstration against segregation. These young people \ raised their hands to voulnteer for a bus ride to Jackson, Mississippi. \ John Lewis, in right foreground, had previously been beaten at the \ Montgomery bus depot. \ Credit: BRUCE DAVIDSON © MAGNUM PHOTOS
