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"My mom had already told us that we couldn't march that Sunday. When she wasnt looking my oldest brother (Profit Barlow a12th grader at R. B. Hudson High School) had slipped out of the house. So she decided that it was best if she stayed home and…

"Selma, Alabama
Flossie Menifee, 67, who marched on "Bloody Sunday" in 1965, stands in front of the A.M.E. Church where the march started as she commented on a billboard within sight of the Edmund Pettus bridge in Selma, Alabama that is sponsored by…

Marion, Alabama resident during Bloody Sunday

Keith High School.
Football player.
US Coast Guard veteran.

SCLC

Sardis, Alabama

Referred to by Alice Moore
Lives in Savannah

Edwin L.D. Moss was "one of Selma's most prominent black businessmen." Not only that, but he was an active participant in the Civil Rights Movement. He helped start demonstrations in Selma, and also was part of a Supreme Court case against Dallas…

Interviewed in 2015.

Wilcox County resident who participated in Bloody Sunday march.

Identified by FBI.

Viola Jackson Dudley recalls being picked up and carried across Edmund Pettus Bridge by Earl Butler.

Identified as Dallas County posseman by FBI report.

Listed as a physician from Manhattan in MCHR newsletter and newspaper accounts.

Confirmed by daughter and niece.
Alexandria, Virginia
Treated John Lewis.
According to her daughter Dorothy Straight: My mother would've been the first to insist, however, that she had infinitely less to lose than any one of the marchers that…

Listed as National Secretary of MCHR in 1965 MCHR newsletter. Resident of New York.

Identified as a resident of Syracuse, New York, in 1965 MCHR newsletter.

Hudson High School, 10th grade

Likely related to Hudson High School teacher and activist Ben Givhan.

Danny Brown from 104C GWC moved to Cleveland, OH and has passed away