Scene at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, after civil rights marchers were beaten and gassed by Alabama state troopers and Dallas County deputies on Bloody Sunday.
Two marchers are holding up Amelia Boynton, who was injured in the attack. This image is from a strip of negatives that were taken by Spider Martin (BN0002435) but were mistakenly placed in a sleeve with negatives taken by Tom Lankford (BN0016998). Dr. Richard Burt at Auburn University discovered...
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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/59701 |