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Image Description: | Selma, Alabama - The eastern end of the Edmund Pettus Bridge over the Alabama River, where civil rights demonstrators demanding the right to vote were badly beaten by sheriff's deputies and state troopers on March 7, 1965. Two weeks later, hundreds marched across the bridge, 54 miles to the state capitol in Montgomery. The struggle won passage of the federal 1965 Voting Rights Act. |
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