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Cops Attack Rights Marchers

Montage shows events leading up to police attack on Civil Rights demonstrators outside of Selma, Ala., on March 7, 1965. Shot shows coffin of demonstrator killed by police. Martin Luther King, others march in the rain. Various shots show chaos as state troopers rout marchers. Helmeted troopers wear gas masks, wield clubs. Arrests, beatings, tear gas.



IdentifierCLIP-14226
Duration1 min, 1 sec
GenreDocumentary
DateMarch 7 1965
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