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Subject Protest marches--Alabama--Selma State Alabama

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1. Edmund Pettus Bridge

Creator:: Spider Martin
Date of Original:: 1965-03-07
Collection:: New Georgia Encyclopedia
Contributing Institution:: New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)

2. Aerial view of marchers crossing bridge during the march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965

Date of Original:: 1965
Collection:: Voices of Civil Rights
Contributing Institution:: Library of Congress