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C.T. Vivian, leads a prayer on the steps of the the courthouse in Selma, Ala., in February 1965. Days later, during a similar confrontation, Sheriff Jim Clark (right) punched Vivian to the ground. Vivian would get up and continue speaking.
Credit: Horace Cort, AP