Voices from the Southern Civil Rights Movement

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    Locales discussed in this exhibit range across nine states:

    Alabama

    Birmingham

    Lowndes County

    Montgomery

    Selma

    Tuskegee

    Tuscaloosa

    Florida

    St. Augustine

    Tallahassee

    Georgia

    Albany

    Atlanta

    Savannah

    Southwest Georgia

    Kentucky

    Louisville

    Louisiana

    Baton Rouge

    Mississippi

    Batesville

    Canton

    Drew

    Grenada

    Greenwood

    Hattiesburg

    Jackson

    Laurel and Liberty

    Marks

    McComb

    Natchez

    Winona

    North Carolina

    Monroe

    Quitman County, MI

    Raleigh

    South Carolina

    Charleston

    Tennessee

    Knoxville

    Nashville

    Texas

    Crosby

    La Marque

    Washington, D.C.

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    Peter Pettus, photographer. Civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, 1965.

    Courtesy of Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.

    Curators

    Alan Gevinson

    AAPB Project Director, Library of Congress

    Kenneth Alexander Campbell

    Intern, Library of Congress Archives, History, and Heritage Advanced (AHHA) Internship Program – Howard University; Assistant Professor, North Carolina Central University