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Montgomery Mayor Steven Reed has requested the removal of a billboard artwork featuring a photograph from “Bloody Sunday,” the infamous March 1965 protests that ended with police brutally attacking civil rights demonstrators, overlaid with the Trump campaign slogan “Make America Great Again.” The image had captured the attention of the conservative Alabama media outlet 1819 News earlier this week. Designed by the art collective For Freedoms, founded by artists Eric Gottesman, Hank Willis Thomas, and Michelle Woo in 2016, the billboard artwork reproduces civil rights photographer Spider Martin’s historic 1965 photograph “ Two Minute Warning .
” Martin captured the moment before state troopers charged toward civil rights leaders Hosea Williams and John Lewis on Bloody Sunday , when a police mob attacked hundreds of marchers crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma to advocate for voting rights. Months later, Congress passed the Voting Rights Act , which mandated the enforcement of the 15th Amendment right to vote and outlawed voting discrimination practices. In a state.