FILE - In this Jan. 12, 2007, file photo, the Rev. James Orange, right, and Obang Metho pray after helping to lay a wreath at the tombs of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife Coretta Scott King at the King Center for non-violent Social Change in Atlanta. When students began skipping school to join the marches, authorities arrested Orange on Feb. 18, 1965, for contributing to the?delinquency?of minors. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)
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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.