The Long Road from Selma to Montgomery

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The Long Road

Steve Schapiro’s rarely-seen photographs of the historic march.

via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/project/portfolio/long-road

The nonviolent discipline of the marchers, the subject of a new film by Ava DuVernay, and portrayed here in Steve Schapiro’s photographs of the Selma-to-Montgomery march, became such a resonant chapter in the black freedom struggle that Barack Obama, in 2007, went to Selma to speak, at Brown Chapel, just weeks after declaring for the Presidency