Keeping in Shape: Federalized National Guard units keep in condition by doing close order drill to keep in shape and pass the time away as they stand by in Montgomery, Alabama, in case of trouble over the weekend. This group is Headquarter Battery 1st Howitzer Battalion from Andalusia, Alabama. They are part of the troops that guarded the 50-mile hike by civil rights groups this week from Selma to Montgomery. March 27, 1965

Protests demanding equal voting rights for Blacks were met with resistance, arrests, and sometime, violence. Alabama became the focus of these protests, culminating in the famous 54-mile march from Selma to Montgomery led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on March 21-25, 1965. Pr...