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[Young man with "VOTE" stenciled on his face with white paint]

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  1. African Americans
  2. Alabama
  3. Civil Rights
  4. Civil Rights Demonstrations
  5. Face Painting
  6. Men
  7. Photographic Prints
  8. Selma To Montgomery Rights March
  9. Selma, Ala.)
  10. Suffrage

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[Martin Luther King, Jr., leading a group of civil rights workers on the march from Selma to Montgomery to fight for black suffrage, 1965] [Procession of demonstrators during the march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, to fight for black suffrage, 1965] [Alabama state troopers using clubs against African Americans attempting to march from Selma to Montgomery] [Aerial view of marchers crossing bridge during the march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965] Mounted Dallas County possemen stand by as an Alabama state trooper tries to get Negro woman to her feet after police used tear gas, clubs and ropes to break up a protest march yesterday outside Selma A small band of Negro teenagers march singing and clapping their hands for a short distance here 3/9 [Martin Luther King, Jr. pictured in crowd at the end of the Selma-Montgomery Rights March, Montgomery, Alabama] Civil rights marchers, one trailing an American flag, trudge along U.S. Highway 80, named in honor of the president of the Confederacy, as they make their way toward Montgomery and the state capitol Young Negroes form a conga line as they parade around "sleep-out" demonstrators preparing to spend a second night bedded down on a Selma street late March 11th (1965) SNCC leader John Lewis (light coat, C) cringes as burly state trooper swings his club at Lewis' head 3/7 during attempted Negro march on the state capitol at Montgomery. Lewis later was admitted to a local hospital with a possible skull fracture State trooper watches as apparently unconcious woman is removed from highway by two friends here 3/7 [ie March 7] after she fell in first rush of troopers to break up attempted Selma-to-Montgomery Negro march [Sea of 30,000 civil rights demonstrators gathered outside the Alabama state capitol following their march from Selma to Montgomery] Two GI's stand guard on bridge over Soapstone Creek--about 10 miles east of Selma--as Selma-to-Montgomery civil rights marchers approach [Alabama state troopers using tear gas and clubs against African Americans and others during the Selma to Montgomery march] Helmeted state conservation department agents stand on capitol steps and watch 30,000 civil rights demonstrators conduct ceremonies and speeches in front of them A solid block of Alabama state troopers and their cars stand by for the announced march of civil rights demonstrators ... Selma officials have stated that march would be blocked Estimated 30,000 civil rights marchers fill the street in front of Alabama state capitol [A pair of muddy shoes underscore the weariness following the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama; state capitol in background] [Last day of Selma march] [The civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965]
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