Voting rights marcher recalls being clubbed hearing fatal gunshot during 1965 protest

Voting rights marcher recalls being clubbed hearing fatal gunshot during 1965 protest

MARION — Della Simpson Maynor was just 14 when she marched for voting rights in her hometown of Marion in Perry County in west Alabama. Her most distinct memory of that evening is of the police attacking the demonstrators. She recalls one officer, on horseback, swinging at her head with…Read More

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