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Bloody Sunday, Selma, Alabama… Great Headlines Speak For Themselves…

March 11, 2015 by GuyHeilenman · Leave a Comment 

The best headlines need no commentary. Such is the case with the FITCHBURG SENTINEL, Massachusetts, March 8, 1965…Blog-3-11-2015-Selma-Alabama

Filed under: Great Headlines, Newspaper Collecting Ideas, Noteworthy Issues, The 20th & 21st Centuries
Tagged: Alabama, Assassinations, black americana, Bloody Sunday, civil rights, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Selma

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