Eighteen Negro Ministers Protest Selma Violence, March 10, 1965

This 1965 newspaper clipping from one of Reverend Black's carefully assembled scrapbooks is a powerful one.  From the March 10, 1965 edition of the San Antonio Light newspaper, it reveals how the power of place can be used to magnify an important message -- here, kneeling in prayer in front of the Alamo, eighteen ministers express solidarity with the peaceful voting rights demonstrators in Selma, Alabama. On March 7th of the same week, televisions across the nation showed Alabama policemen attacking the Selma-to-Montgomery marchers, in what would later be called "Bloody Sunday" by President Lyndon Baines Johnson.

In Reverend Black's own words:

"We come to this place because we recognize it to be a symbol of freedom."