Police Dogs Attack Demonstrators, Birmingham Protests
- Created by
- Moore, Charles, American, 1931 - 2010
- Subject of
- Unidentified Man or Men
- Unidentified Woman or Women
- Date
- 1963; printed later
- Medium
- silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions
- H x W (Image): 8 3/4 x 13 3/16 in. (22.3 x 33.5 cm)
- H x W (Sheet): 16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
- Description
- A black-and-white photograph of African American men and women in the streets running away from police and dogs. There is a woman in the foreground wearing a flowered skirt and a white top and she is looking on as a white police officer raises his baton in his right hand in the direction of a young man. The police officer is holding the leash of a dog with his left hand. The print is signed [Charles Moore] on the back in pencil.
- Place depicted
- Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Media Arts-Photography
- Movement
- Civil Rights Movement
- Type
- gelatin silver prints
- Topic
- Civil rights
- Photography
- Violence
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Object number
- 2011.49.7
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Charles Moore
- Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.