In this Feb. 18, 2020, photo, Della Simpson?Maynor?finds her name and her siblings names on a monument erected for people who marched and fought for voting rights in Marion, Ala. Maynor?remembers the?mounted?police officer cracking her elbow with a baton. She recalls the panicked marchers?unable to escape the onslaught, and the scuffle between officers and a young church deacon who was trying to ?protect his mother and grandfather.?(AP Photo/Gary Fields)
March 7, 2020
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MARION, Ala. (AP) — Della Simpson Maynor remembers the mounted police officer cracking her elbow with a baton. She recalls the panicked marchers unable to escape the onslaught, and the scuffle between officers and a young church deacon who was trying to protect his mother and grandfather. Most of all, she remembers the gunshot.