The March to Montgomery

Pick 'em up and lay 'em down...
   All the way from Selma town.

[© James Karales]
[© Ivan Massar]
[© Bruce Davidson]

 

The March crosses Lowndes County, a stronghold of the Ku Klux Klan.

Population: 81% Black, 19% white.
Voter registration: Blacks 0, whites 2240 (118%)

[© John Phillips]

 

 

Lowndes County, Hiway-80 from Selma to Montgomery.

[© Matt Herron]
[© Ivan Massar]

[Bruce Hartford] [© John Phillips]

[Photographer unknown]

Through drenching rain
and freezing cold...

[© Matt Herron]
[© Ivan Massar]

[© Matt Herron]

[© Ivan Massar] [© Ivan Massar]

[Ken Thompson]

[Photographer unknown]
[© Peter Pettus]
[© Ivan Massar]

 

Freedom!   

Now!   

50,000 strong, the March reaches the Capitol building in Montgomery.


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