A Group of Demonstrators Participating in a Sit Down Protest in Front of the Capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, March 10, 1965

Demonstrators are shown staging a sit-down at the capitol building in Montgomery, Alabama to protest policy brutality. Caption on photo reads: (SEX8) MONTGOMERY, Ala., Mar. 10 -- SITDOWN AT CAPITOL -- Negroes stage a sit-down at the capitol in Montgomery, Ala. today. The demonstrators, most of them from nearby Tuskegee Institute, were protesting "police brutality" at Selma, Ala.The Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library acknowledges the generous support of the Joseph & Evelyn Lowery Institute for Justice and Human Rights, the Joseph Echols Lowery Irrevocable Trust, and other donors in supporting the processing and digitization of Morehouse College's Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection