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The Heart of Darkness
U.S. troops carry a wounded soldier along a Vietnam creek.
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School Children Marching
Hundreds of school-age children are being marched off to a detention compound after being arrested for demonstrating outside the Dallas County Courthouse in Selma, Alabama. It is February 3, 1965.
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Selma to Montgomery
This aerial view shows hundreds of marchers en route from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama on March 25, 1965.
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Selma March
This scene of police violence against civil rights marchers was taken by a UPI photographer on March 7, 1965. The man in the light coat is John Lewis. He was later admitted to a local hospital with a possible skull fracture.
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Arriving at the State Capitol
Waving flags and holding signs saying "Freedom Now," the Selma marchers, after five days of walking, finally reach their goal -- the Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery. It is March 25, 1965.
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Wounded in Vietnam
This photograph shows a U.S. Marine in Vietnam in the 1960s, wounded by a Viet Cong booby trap.
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Los Angeles Riots
The Watts Riots were not the first to erupt in Los Angeles, California. Here police sit with a wounded man during the 1943 L.A. riots.
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Prisoner
A Viet Cong prisoner, blindfolded and crying, awaits interrogation by American troops. American soldiers learned to dehumanize the enemy -- often referring to the Viet Cong as "gooks" and "cockroaches."
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Bobby Kennedy
Robert Kennedy was in Indianapolis when he received word of Dr. King's assassination. Here he speaks to a crowd in New York four years earlier.
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