Gee's Bend, Alabama. Nurse Shamburg weighing Ira Dencie Pettway's baby in a project clinic.

[Freedom riders inside of bus from Montgomery, Alabama to Jackson, Mississippi]

[Civil rights demonstrators soaked from high-pressure water hoses aimed at them by firefighters, Birmingham, Alabama]

Selma, Alabama, USA

A woman helps a fellow civil-rights demonstrator who was wounded by club-wielding posse-men on horseback in Montgomery, Alabama

National Guard escorts Freedom Riders on bus on way from Montgomery, Alabama to Jackson, Mississippi.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gets a hug from his wife, Coretta Scott King, outside a Montgomery, Alabama courtroom

Gee's Bend, Alabama. Aunt Sally, old midwife, the only doctor or nurse ever heard of in Gee's Bend before the project was started.

Hundreds of people from all over the country walk during the famous five-day civil rights march between Selma and Montgomery, Alabama

Black Americans, Alabama, USA.

[Rosa Parks riding on newly integrated bus following Supreme Court ruling ending successful 381-day boycott of segregated buses, Montgomery, Alabama]

Jorena Pettway sorting peas inside her smokehouse. She still has many fruits and vegetables which she canned last year, Gee's Bend, Alabama

[Line of mostly Caucasian young men, including amputee on crutches, participating in civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery in protest of denial of black voting rights as pair of National Guardsmen watch from side, Alabama]

[Martin Luther King, Jr., Montgomery, Alabama]

"Vote" Marcher, Selma to Montgomery

Children of the rural South

Trained to cooperate with arresting officers, most demonstrators do so

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is arrested for loitering outside a courtroom where his friend and associate Ralph Abernathy is appearing for a trial

TVA Dam

[Firemen control a crowd of demonstrators with high pressure water]

Mounted posse man swings at demonstrators in Selma

[Unidentified Girl]