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The Spider Martin Civil Rights Collection is the largest and most comprehensive document from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1965 Freedom Campaign. Spider recorded on film, two of the most historically significant and pivotal events in Civil Rights history, contributing to the passage of the The Voting Rights Act of 1965: Bloody Sunday and the Selma to Montgomery Freedom March. In 2015 we will observe and commemorate the 50th Anniversaries of Bloody Sunday, The Selma to Montgomery Freedom March and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

"Spider, we could have marched, we could have protested forever,

but if it weren't for guys like you, it would have been for nothing.

The whole world saw your pictures. That's why the Voting Rights Act passed"

Martin Luther King

1965

“In Spider Martin’s hands, a camera is a weapon of discovery,

revealing truths long concealed by prejudice and mythology."

Andrew Young

1992

"Spider Martin, more than any other photographer of our time,

has used his camera to document the struggle for civil rights

and social change in the State of Alabama…In viewing Spider's

collection, one is literally walking through the pages of

American history."

Congressman John Lewis

1996

“The photographs by Spider Martin helped change

not just the American South,

but change our nation and our world."

Congressman John Lewis

2011

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