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Sleet, Moneta Jr., 1926-1996 50,000 March on Montgomery

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09779.11 Author/Creator: Sleet, Moneta Jr., 1926-1996 Place Written: Montgomery, Alabama Type: Poster Date: May 1965 Pagination: 1 p. ; 35.6 x 28 cm. Order a Copy

One cover of Ebony magazine entitled, "50,000 March on Montgomery," dated May 1965. Image displays marchers of the 1965 March on Montgomery. Notable figures featured are Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King, Rosa Parks, Ralph Abernathy, and Ralph J. Bunche.

Bunche, Ralph, 1904-1971
Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006
Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005
Sleet, Moneta Jr., 1926-1996

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