Journalist Richard Valeriani talking on the telephone from his hospital bed in Selma, Alabama, after he was injured during a civil rights demonstration in Marion.
Valeriani was hit in the head while covering the demonstration, during which Jimmie Lee Jackson was shot. Jackson's subsequent death on February 26 led to "Bloody Sunday," an attempted voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery during which peaceful demonstrators were attacked by la...
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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/98981 |