In this Feb. 29, 2020, photo, the family of the Rev. James Orange, a project coordinator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, pose for a photo outside the Perry County jail in Marion, Ala. Orange was housed in the jail in 1965 after his arrest while organizing a voter registration drive. Family members from left, daughters Jamida and Deirdre Orange, son Cleon Orange and wife Cleophas Orange. (AP Photo/Julie Bennett)
March 7, 2020
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Civil rights: The road to Bloody Sunday began 30 miles away
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.