Civil rights demonstrators outside the Ben Moore Hotel on Jackson Street in Montgomery, Alabama, before marching to the Montgomery County courthouse.
The march was held to protest the violent dispersal of a group of SNCC demonstrators on March 16. Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders met with local officials at the courthouse to discuss the event.
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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Online Access: | http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/amg/id/36187 |
Summary: | The march was held to protest the violent dispersal of a group of SNCC demonstrators on March 16. Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders met with local officials at the courthouse to discuss the event. |
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