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FILE - A civil rights march is conducted on Sept. 4, 1966 in close quarters on Cicero Ave., a main street of this suburb of Chicago. At left, the police; then National Guardsmen with bayonets on ...

Selma, Alabama, voting rights protest in 1965 National Guard troops played a pivotal role in the march often credited with pressuring the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

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