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    <lastmod>2025-05-24</lastmod>
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    <lastmod>2025-05-24</lastmod>
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    <lastmod>2025-05-24</lastmod>
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    <lastmod>2025-05-24</lastmod>
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    <lastmod>2025-05-24</lastmod>
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    <lastmod>2025-05-24</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Martin Luther King Jr. with Ralph Abernathy, James Forman of the SNCC, and Reverend Jesse Douglas leading the march around the state capitol, Montgomery, Alabama, March 25, 1965; photograph by Spider Martin from the exhibition ‘Selma March 1965,’ at the Steven Kasher Gallery, New York City, March 5–April 18, 2015. Steven Kasher Gallery, New York</image:caption>
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