Contact Sheets with Photographs Taken in Selma, Alabama
3/6/1965 - 3/15/1965
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These photographs taken by FBI special agents show Alabama State troopers, deputies and posse members involved in tear gassing and the dispersal of approximately 625 marchers in Selma, Alabama, on March 7, 1965. Each contact sheet includes photographs from one roll of film. Descriptions of the pictures and the name of the agent who took them are included after each sheet.
This primary source comes from the Records of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
National Archives Identifier: 7634471
Full Citation: Contact Sheets with Photographs Taken in Selma, Alabama ; 3/6/1965 - 3/15/1965; 44-28492, Section 1 Serials 1-42, Alabama (1965) 3/7 Selma to Montgomery March, Edmund Pettus Bridge (Photos), Martin Luther King, Jr., A.D. King, Ralph Abernathy, A. Phillip Randolph, John Robert Lew; Classification 44 (Civil Rights) Headquarters Case Files, 1924 - 1978; Records of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Record Group 65; National Archives at College Park, College Park, MD. [Online Version, https://docsteach.org/documents/document/selma-contact-sheets, April 17, 2025]Activities that use this document
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