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.
Marchers Along U.S. Highway 80
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Courtesy of the Alabama Department of Archives and History
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