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Title
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Freedom Riders
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Identifier
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e_frp_010
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Creator
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Associated Press (Photographer)
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Dates
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1961-05-21
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Resource
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Freedom Riders press photographs album
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Description
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Caption from the Associated Press reads, "TROOPS MOVE IN--- Steel helmeted troopers armed with riot guns move in on a mob which gathered at the Negro First Baptist Church in Montgomery tonight where an integration rally was being held. Tear gas scattered the mob." (AP Wirephoto) 1961
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Title
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Freedom Riders
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Identifier
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e_frp_011
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Creator
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Associated Press (Photographer)
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Dates
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1961-05-21
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Resource
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Freedom Riders press photographs album
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Description
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Caption from the Associated Press reads, "TROOPS ARRIVE---National Guard troops unload gear in Montgomery tonight after martial law was declared following racial violence. They set up and patrolled near a Negro church where integration meeting was in progress." (AP Wirephoto) 1961
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Title
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Freedom Riders
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Identifier
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e_frp_014
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Creator
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Associated Press (Photographer)
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Dates
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1961-05-21
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Resource
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Freedom Riders press photographs album
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Description
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Caption from the Associated Press reads, "MARSHALS READY---U.S. Marshals armed with billy clubs and wearing gas masks are on duty in Montgomery tonight as a riot swirled around a Negro church." (AP Wirephoto) 1961
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Title
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Freedom Riders
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Identifier
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e_frp_015
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Creator
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Associated Press (Photographer)
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Dates
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1961-05-21
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Resource
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Freedom Riders press photographs album
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Description
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Caption from the Associated Press reads, "NATIONAL GUARD TAKES OVER---A squad of National Guard sets out on patrol in Montgomery tonight as martial law was declared following racial violence." (AP Wirephoto) 1961
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Title
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Freedom Riders
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Identifier
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e_frp_026
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Creator
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Associated Press (Photographer)
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Dates
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1961-05-21
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Resource
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Freedom Riders press photographs album
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Description
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Caption from the Associated Press reads, "DEFENDANT---Robert M. Shelton, an Alabama Ku Klux Klan leader from Tuscaloosa, is one of several Klan defendants in a federal injunction issued last night against bus violence. Shelton, 31-year-old tire salesman, heads the Alabama Knights, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Inc." (AP Wirephoto 1961
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Freedom Riders
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Identifier
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e_frp_030
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Creator
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Associated Press (Photographer)
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Dates
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1961-05-21
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Resource
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Freedom Riders press photographs album
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Description
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Caption from the Associated Press reads, "MARSHALS WATCH NEGRO CHURCH---Federal Marshals stand watch in Montgomery tonight at the Negro First Baptist Church as evening services start. The church, whose pastor is integration leader Rev. Ralph Abernathy, will be the scene tonight or a meeting or freedom riders to announce their future plans. Arrival of the biracial riders on a bus yesterday set off a riot." (AP Wirephoto 1961)
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Title
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Freedom Riders
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Identifier
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e_frp_031
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Creator
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Associated Press (Photographer)
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Dates
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1961-05-21
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Resource
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Freedom Riders press photographs album
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Description
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Caption from the Associated Press reads, "MARSHALS GUARD NEGRO CHURCH---A group of U.S. Marshals stands outside Negro church in Montgomery tonight to hold off a mob during integration rally. In the background an automobile burns after being overturned by the mob." (AP Wirephoto 1961)