The Civil War in Primary Resources: An Exhibition by the Special Collections Library
 

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1956

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Winner of the Alabama Press Association’s Photo of the Year, 1956. A Black woman watches Ku Klux Klan members walking down Dexter Avenue in Montgomery, Alabama. A few blocks away, Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. – leader of the Civil Rights Movement – preaches at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church.

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Keywords

African Americans, Reconstruction, Blacks, Civil Rights, Ku Klux Klan

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