Nursing Tired and Sore Feet: Rodney Shaw, Washington, D.C., foreground, bathes his tired and sore feet in a roadside stream while other civil rights marchers rest their feet during a stop in their march on the Alabama state capitol at Montgomery. The march approached the city limits this afternoon where the demonstrators will make camp before converging on the capital tomorrow. March 24, 1965

This photograph, likely considered as a human interest item by the newspapers, encourages us to empathize with and admire the marchers by showing us the physical hardships they are enduring and their stoic attitude. It also demonstrates that whites joined in the struggle to ga...