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May 8, 2024 · Selma March, political march led by Martin Luther King, Jr., from Selma, Alabama, to the state’s capital, Montgomery, that occurred March 21–25, 1965. The march became a landmark in the American civil rights movement and directly led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Mar 8, 2020 · Two weeks before Bloody Sunday — the clash in Selma on March 7, 1965, that helped propel the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 — there was a march in this small town 30 miles away....
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Jackson died eight days later in a Selma hospital. In response to Jackson’s death, activists in Selma and Marion set out on 7 March to march from Selma to the state capitol in Montgomery. While King was in Atlanta, his SCLC colleague Hosea Williams and SNCC leader John Lewis led the march.
It was Jackson's death that sparked the idea of a march from Selma to Montgomery to demand equal voting rights. The idea of expanding the march from the courthouse of Dallas County to the Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery, 87 kilometers (54 miles) away, showed how much the movement had grown.
Mar 3, 2024 · Harris lead marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where voting rights activists were beaten back by law enforcement on March 7, 1965. Harris and Attorney General Merrick Garland were in...
Jun 23, 2020 · Four lives were lost: Jimmie Lee Jackson, rev. James Reeb, Viola Liuzzo, and Jonathan Daniels. All four men that assaulted Reverend James Reeb were acquitted. Right after the third march concluded, Viola Liuzzo was shot by Ku Klux Klansmen who were driving past the protesters.
The Selma to Montgomery marches were three protest marches, held in 1965, along the 54-mile (87 km) highway from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital of Montgomery.
