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The Americus Movement (1963-65) began in Americus, in southwest Georgia, when less than a dozen activists protested against the segregated Martin Theater. The well-organized movement soon grew to number in the hundreds.

Courtesy of Explore Georgia, Photograph by Ralph Daniel.

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