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Civil rights activists Rachel Nelson and Sheyann Webb demonstrating at a Ku Klux Klan march in Selma, Alabama.

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@ Alabama Department of Archives and History, 624 Washington Avenue, Montgomery, Alabama

Sikora, Frank; Bray, Bob

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They are holding signs that read, "Save Our Land / Damn the Klans" and "Black Power." Both women had been involved in the civil rights movement since they were children. (The Klan members marched from Selma to Montgomery with the intention of burning a cross in front of the Capitol, but they were stopped by police outside of Montgomery.)
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1979 08 10
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Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. Anti Civil Rights Demonstrations
  3. Civil Rights
  4. Civil Rights Demonstrations
  5. Dallas County (Ala.)
  6. Ku Klux Klan (1915 )
  7. Nelson, Rachel West
  8. Selma (Ala.)
  9. Webb, Sheyann
  10. White Supremacy Movements

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