Selma-to-Montgomery March Camps Top List of Endangered Sites

October 23, 2024

Associated Press
The landmark voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965 didn’t happen in just one day: Participants spent four nights camping along the roughly 55-mile (89-kilometer) route through Alabama, sleeping in tents and near farm buildings under the watch of guards to prevent white supremacist attacks.

 

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