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Images of the Civil Rights Movement

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Carrying satchels and suitcases, six hundred people attended the March for Voting Rights, which traveled between Selma and Montgomery, Alabama in 1965. Photo by Spider Martin and courtesy of the Briscoe Center. © Spider Martin.

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