The Big Flag on the Hall Farm Road during the Selma to Montgomery March, Dallas County, Alabama, March 21, 1965. Dan Budnik/Contact Press Images …  Quintella Harrell (center) demonstrating with fellow students in Selma. | Corrections & Amplifications: An earlier version of this caption incorrectly said that Ms. Harrell’s sister was also pictured. Dan Budnik/Contact Press Images …  Clergy members who came to Selma responding to Martin Luther King Jr.'s call for a Ministers’ March. Dan Budnik/Contact Press Images …  Feisty teenagers having fun with the police. Dan Budnik/Contact Press Images …  Photographers documenting the passing of James Reeb, a white Unitarian minister who had just died after receiving a lethal blow to his head. His death galvanized Washington into taking action, paving the way for the Selma-to-Montgomery march and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Dan Budnik/Contact Press Images …  Archibishop Iakovos and Martin Luther King Jr. with other dignitaries walking to the Dallas County Courthouse, where they hung the funeral wreath honoring the death and sacrifice of Rev. James Reeb. | Corrections & Amplifications: An earlier version of this caption misspelled Archbishop Iakovos. Dan Budnik/Contact Press Images …  Newly registered voters taking the oath of allegiance, enabling them to become first-time voters, Montgomery, March 14. Dan Budnik/Contact Press Images …  Distributing protective helmets after a savage beating by mounted posse, Montgomery. Dan Budnik/Contact Press Images …  The Beulah Baptist Church, packed to capacity, after a sit-down demonstration in downtown Montgomery that resulted in a bloody confrontation with the mounted posse. Dan Budnik/Contact Press Images …  Willie Ricks and James Forman, Alabama Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee leaders who provoked a clash between demonstrators and the mounted posse that caused great bloodshed and almost ended Dr. King's non-violent crusade. Dan Budnik/Contact Press Images …  Alabama state troopers on alert in Montgomery. Dan Budnik/Contact Press Images …  Heading to Montgomery, March 24: Lewis Marshall, Albert Southall and Scooter Collins with the Big Flag, singing a freedom song. The flag was treated with due respect and never allowed to touch the ground. Dan Budnik/Contact Press Images …  Waking up on the hood of a pickup truck, a mud-free perch. Dan Budnik/Contact Press Images …  Coretta Scott-King and Martin Luther King Jr. at the Montgomery Municipal Airport. Dan Budnik/Contact Press Images …  A Berea College delegation at the City of St. Jude staging area the final day. Dan Budnik/Contact Press Images …  Church mothers of the Mt. Zion A.M.E. Zion Church on Holt Street. These powerful women were the backbone of the civil rights movement. Dan Budnik/Contact Press Images …  Will Henry 'Do-Right' Rogers with his handmade flag and homemade flagpole, on the Robert Gardner Farm Road, Lowndes County, March 23. Dan Budnik/Contact Press Images …  Selma: ‘Marching to the Freedom Dream’
In his book, photographer Dan Budnik gathers stirring images of Selma from March 1965 and other events that he documented at the time.