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[Rev. Ralph Abernathy walking with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., as they lead civil rights marchers out of camp to resume their march to Montgomery, Alabama]

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  1. Abernathy, Ralph
  2. Alabama
  3. Civil Rights
  4. Demonstrations
  5. Jr.
  6. King, Martin Luther
  7. Photographic Prints
  8. Selma
  9. Selma To Montgomery Rights March
  10. Selma, Ala.)

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[Last day of Selma march] [Martin Luther King, Jr. pictured in crowd at the end of the Selma-Montgomery Rights March, Montgomery, Alabama] Federal marshal reads text of federal court injunction prohibiting Selma-to-Montgomery march to Dr. Martin Luther King (2nd from left) as [he] attempted to lead his followers out of town [Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, accompanied by Martin Luther King and Ralph Abernathy, leads a march for voter registration in Selma, Alabama] [Composite of two photographs: lower photograph shows the Selma--Montgomery civil rights march, with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., (front/center), Coretta Scott King (behind Dr. King) and John Lewis (right of Mrs. King); upper photograph shows five white segregationists, two with confederate flags] Walking in the rain to register to vote, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., right, Ralph Abernethy [sic], center, and Rev. Andrew Young lead group of Negroes from church here on walk to Dallas Co. courthouse [Martin Luther King, Jr., leading a group of civil rights workers on the march from Selma to Montgomery to fight for black suffrage, 1965] 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 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) [Alabama state troopers using tear gas and clubs against African Americans and others during the Selma to Montgomery march] 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 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 A small band of Negro teenagers march singing and clapping their hands for a short distance here 3/9 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 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 [Alabama state troopers using clubs against African Americans attempting to 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 [Selma to Montgomery marchers wave American flags in front of the Alabama State Capitol at the end of their 5 day march] [Some of the 300 Selma to Montgomery marchers stop for a break] [John Lewis with Ralph Abernathy, and Martin Luther King, Jr. at a press conference during freedom rides]
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