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On Duty in Alabama: Soldiers from the 503rd Military Police Division at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, march down a street at Maxwell Air Force Base near Montgomery, Alabama Saturday. They were sent to Alabama for possible use in the Selma-Montgomery march, March 20, 1965, 1965

J. Spencer Jones

J. Spencer Jones (American)

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)

Joining the Ranks: A Catholic nun and two priests stand in the rain with marathon demonstrators in Selma, Alabama. The group has remained at a police barricade two days and nights after being refused permission to march to the courthouse. From left: Reverend Clement Burns, New Haven, Connecticut; Sister Alberta, Wilmington, Delaware; and Reverend Robert McGratti, Hartford, Connecticut, March 12, 1965, 1965

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Sheriff Clark at the Scene: Dallas County Sheriff Jim Clark, left, stands with his chief deputy, L. C. Crocker as Negroes turn out in large numbers to register at the courthouse in Selma, Alabama today. The line of applicants in background stretched several blocks. Clark got up from a hospital bed today but appeared to be acting more as an observer, February 15, 1965, 1965

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Civil rights marchers morning campfire sends smoke spiraling skyward near Selma, as they prepare to break camp today and resume their march to the state capitol at Montgomery. The demonstrators spent a cold night in tents in an open field about seven miles from Selma, where the march started out yesterday. March 24, 1965, 1965

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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, 1965

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The Selma to Montgomery Marches: Press in front of marchers filming the march, Montgomery, March 1965, 1965

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Marchers Continue Their Hike: Under the watchful eye of an Army military police, ordered out by President Johnson, civil rights marchers continue their 50-mile walk along Route 80 from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama today. Other soldiers stand guard at intersections in background, March 22, 1965, 1965

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Police Break Up Demonstration: Police carry off two men who were part of a sit-down group at Montgomery, Alabama today. Hundreds had marched on the capitol yesterday and several attempted to continue it today. March 11, 1965, 1965

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In a weapons shakedown was a Negro arrested today during attempts to register to vote in Selma, Alabama. He and others arrested failed to heed police orders to move from in front of the courthouse and line up in a side alley, January 1965, 1965

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Wide Open: The street near Brown Chapel, right background, at Selma, Alabama is open to normal traffic today. For days the area was sealed off by hundreds of police who faced demonstrators at a barricade in the foreground. The demonstrators, attempting to march to the courthouse for a memorial service for the Reverend James Reeb, were permitted to march yesterday. There were no police in the area today, March 16, 1965, 1965

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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

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