Keeping in Shape: Federalized National Guard units keep in condition by doing close order drill to keep in shape and pass the time away as they stand by in Montgomery, Alabama, in case of trouble over the weekend. This group is Headquarter Battery 1st Howitzer Battalion from Andalusia, Alabama. They are part of the troops that guarded the 50-mile hike by civil rights groups this week from Selma to Montgomery. March 27, 1965, 1965
Horace Cort
Horace Cort (American, 1913–1988)
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Violence broke out at a disputed school site as civil rights pickets threw themselves into the path of a back-hoe digging dirt for a new school. Police hauled the pickets from the hole. Pickets in the background already have some dirt on them as the back-hoe dropped a partial load to discourage the picketing. Demonstrators say construction will "promote re-segregation" in the predominantly African-American neighborhood. Cleveland, Ohio, April 6, 1964, 1964