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Associated Press Another Day, Another Confrontation

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09734.16 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, "Another Day, Another Confrontation," taken by Associated Press dated March 15, 1965. Images is of police officers blocking a large crowd of demonstrators with police cars. Wire transfer information states that Sheriff James Clark and state police prevented the demonstration from proceeding to the courthouse. Clark said protesters could proceed one by one if they had "voter registration business there."

Clark, James, 1922-2007

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