More than a day of rain and drizzle meant that the already-soaked marchers arrived at a muddy campsite for their third night on the road.
Tents had been pitched on the farm of another black Lowndes County resident, Robert Gardner. After dinner supplied by Tuskegee Institute students, some marchers tried sleeping on donated air mattresses, but many of them were deflated by morning. Others sheltered on the farmhouse porch.
Selma To Montgomery National Historic Trail
Source: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service