Marchers Along U.S. Highway 80

The number of participants in the Selma to Montgomery march decreased as the march travelled along this rural two-lane stretch of U.S. Highway 80 in Lowndes County, but they increased as the demonstrators neared Montgomery.

Civil rights marchers walking along U.S. Highway 80 from Selma to Montgomery
Courtesy of the Alabama Department of Archives and History
Civil rights marchers walking along U.S. Highway 80 from Selma to Montgomery