[CIVIL RIGHTS]. Press photograph of marchers camping near Selma for the night. Selma, AL, 21 March 1965.

10 x 6 1/4 in. silver gelatin photograph (trimmed along top edge, 1/8 in. tear along right edge, some light creasing and stamped impressions in print). Newspaper clippings, ink stamps, and notations on verso.

Following the first leg of the 50-mile, 5-day march to Montgomery, AL, to protest denial of African American voting rights, the marchers are shown at their first overnight campground, which consisted of four large tents erected in a cow pasture.

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[CIVIL RIGHTS]. Press photograph of marchers camping near Selma for the night. Selma, AL, 21 March 1965.

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[CIVIL RIGHTS]. Press photograph of marchers camping near Selma for the night. Selma, AL, 21 March 1965.

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[CIVIL RIGHTS]. Press photograph of marchers camping near Selma for the night. Selma, AL, 21 March 1965.