Photos of Martin
Over the next several weeks Spider remained in the area, chronicling the day-to-day events of the Selma campaign, from church rallies and strategy sessions to the marches themselves.
Other pictures taken by Martin
Martin died by suicide on April 8th, 2003
Raised in Hueytown, Alabama
Spider Martin started off by covering the death of an African American Deacon by the name of Jimmy Lee Jackson, 20 miles outside of Selma.
In two years, Alabama had moved to the forefront of the civil rights efforts.
Alabama, in the words of Dr. King, had become "the symbol of bitter-end resistance to the civil rights movement in the Deep South.
