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Associated Press Police Break Up Demonstration

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09734.10 Author/Creator: Associated Press Place Written: Montgomery, Alabama Type: Photograph Date: 11 March 1965 Pagination: 1 photograph : b&w Height: 20.5 cm, Width: 25.5 cm Order a Copy

One wirephoto entitled, "Police Break Up Demonstration," taken by Associated Press dated March 11, 1965. Image is four police officers dragging two protestors from a demonstration. Wire transfer information states that the two men were carried off from a sit-down at Montgomery, Alabama.

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