Alabama Fire Department Aims High-Pressure Water Hoses at Civil Rights Demonstrators
- Created by
- Moore, Charles, American, 1931 - 2010
- Subject of
- Unidentified Man or Men
- Unidentified Woman or Women
- Date
- May 1963; printed 2007
- Medium
- silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions
- H x W (Image): 12 13/16 x 19 3/16 in. (32.5 x 48.7 cm)
- H x W (Sheet): 16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
- Description
- A black-and-white photograph of two African American men and an African American woman being sprayed with high-pressure fire hoses. They are leaning against the glass windows of a brick building. The man on the far right is being hit directly in the lower back with the stream of water from the hose. The print is signed [Charles Moore] on the back in pencil.
- Place depicted
- Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Photographs and Still Images
- Movement
- Civil Rights Movement
- Type
- gelatin silver prints
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Object number
- 2011.49.1
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Charles Moore
- Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.