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Photos and captions courtesy of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries.
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Bob Fitch, far right, accompanied by California Highway Patrol officers. Salinas, California, 1973. -
Martin Luther King Jr. in his SCLC office. On the wall is a portrait of Mahatma Gandhi, whose practice and teaching of nonviolent direct action inspired King’s work. King asked Bob Fitch to photograph him here for the jacket of his then-forthcoming (and last) book, Where Do We Go From Here? published in 1967. This image is also the basis for the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington, D.C., unveiled in 2011. Atlanta, Georgia, 1966. -
Sixteen-year-old Dorinda Palmer leads marchers to City Hall, blocked by white sheriff’s deputies and local residents, including Ku Klux Klan members wearing street clothes. Greenwood, Mississippi, 1965. -
Septima Clark, co-founder of SCLC’s Citizenship Education Project, works one-on-one to teach a man how to write. Camden, Alabama, 1966. -
Sheriff Bill Lee (right) slaps Tom Gilmore as Gilmore leads a march to integrate schools. Following this incident, local minister and civil rights leader William McKinley Branch and SCLC staff member James Orange courageously suggested that Gilmore should seek the office himself. Following an initial 1966 defeat (due to voter irregularities), Gilmore was elected in 1970 and served as sheriff of Greene County until 1983. Eutaw, Alabama, 1965. -
Stokely Carmichael makes the first public use of the “Black Power!” slogan from the back of a flatbed truck. Greenwood, Mississippi, June 16, 1966. -
Draft protesters flash peace signs during their arrest at the Army Induction Center. Oakland, California, Winter 1967–1968. -
Pete Seeger inspired and galvanized generations of peace, justice, and civil rights activists and helped to popularize the spiritual “We Shall Overcome” as the unofficial anthem of the American civil rights movement. Kingston, New York, July 1, 1969. -
The Berrigan brothers, Daniel and Philip, embrace as they meet after going into hiding. April 1970. -
César Chávez. Delano, California, 1969 -
César Chávez stamp.Bob Fitch -
At a UFW rally, a woman holds an image of the Virgin of Guadalupe against a backdrop of the U.S. and Mexican flags. -
Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement, practices nonviolent resistance at a UFW picket. When arthritis made standing difficult, Day confronted sheriffs from her portable collapsible three-legged golf stool. Lamont, California, August 1973.