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Images of the Civil Rights Movement

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Rev. Hosea Williams, John Lewis, and others were confronted by Alabama state troopers during the 1965 March for Voting Rights to Montgomery. Photo by Spider Martin and courtesy of the Briscoe Center. © Spider Martin.

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