What were the circumstances that led you to cover the historic 1965 march led by the Rev. Martin Lut

What were the circumstances that led you to cover the historic 1965 march led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., to demand free and clear voting rights for African Americans?Steve Schapiro: When James Baldwin’s essay “The Fire Next Time” appeared in the New Yorker magazine, I asked LIFE if I could do a long photo essay with Baldwin. Both he and they agreed and I spent the next weeks traveling in the South with James. As a New York semi-hippie this was a new experience and opened my eyes to a situation of the inequality I had only read about. After that, I covered many other civil rights stories in the South for Life and other magazines, including George Wallace standing in the doorway at Tuscaloosa, the March on Washington and the Summer of ’64 Mississippi Voter Registration drive. It was only natural to want to cover the Selma March which seemed to have such relevance and a possible spur to the passage of the Voter Registration Act. -- source link
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