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Selma to Montgomery March

1965

Lowndes County, Alabama, United States, North and Central America

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Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

This back-and-white digital image depicts a line of marchers along the top of a hill during the Selma to Montgomery marches. The marchers, both men and women, are moving forward, some of whom are carrying flags. The photograph is taken at the bottom of the hill, looking up at the marchers with dark clouds in the sky above them.

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Catalog reference: 2015.129.63

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