History is a Gift · @lboe
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After two previous marches marked by assaults and other obstacles, civil rights activists, including Martin Luther King, Jr., complete a 4-day 50-mile march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, under the protection of federally-mandated troops in 1965. These marches greatly increased the political pressure that led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act later that year.

Today's art is by John Hopkins: alabamanews.net/2015/02/27/max

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