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Associated Press March Halted

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09734.15 Author/Creator: Associated Press Place Written: Selma, Alabama Type: Photograph Date: 15 March 1965 Pagination: 1 photograph : b&w ; 20.5 x 25.5 cm Order a Copy

One wirephoto entitled, "March Halted," taken by Associated Press dated March 15, 1965. Image is of C.T. Vivian linked in arms with Dana McLean Greely. Sheriff James Clark and other police officers blocks their path. Wire transfer information identifies C.T. Vivian as an integration leader and Dana McLean Greeley as the president of the Unitarian Universalist Association of North America.

Clark, James, 1922-2007
Vivian, C.T., 1924-2020
Greeley, Dana McLean, 1908-1986

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