Coretta Scott King With Marching Peers Posing on Highway

(Original Caption) A commemorative march was led March 8th across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where 10 years before, mounted police officials turned back the Selma to Montgomery March, an incident which is credited with passage of the 1965 Voter Rights Act. Leaders for the march were left to right: Reverend James P. Robinson of Selma; Coretta King, wife of the late Dr. Martin Luther King; John Lewis, Head of Voter Education Project, Atlanta; F. D. Reese, a march organizer from Selma; and Ben Owens of Selma with crutches.
(Original Caption) A commemorative march was led March 8th across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where 10 years before, mounted police officials turned back the Selma to Montgomery March, an incident which is credited with passage of the 1965 Voter Rights Act. Leaders for the march were left to right: Reverend James P. Robinson of Selma; Coretta King, wife of the late Dr. Martin Luther King; John Lewis, Head of Voter Education Project, Atlanta; F. D. Reese, a march organizer from Selma; and Ben Owens of Selma with crutches.
Coretta Scott King With Marching Peers Posing on Highway
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March 05, 1975
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