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  1. 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.

  2. 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. In 1965, three protest marches were held in the United States to ...

  3. A small map below the timeline’s description of events of March 7, 1965—later known as “Bloody Sunday”—shows the route that some 600 demonstrators took that day through Selma and across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. This map also shows the route demonstrators took on March 9, later called “Turnaround Tuesday.”.

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  5. 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. The marches were organized by nonviolent activists to demonstrate the desire of African-American citizens to exercise their constitutional right to vote, in defiance of ...

    • March 7–25, 1965
  6. Edmund Pettus Bridge is named for Edmund Pettus, a Confederate general, member of the Ku Klux Klan, and U.S. Senator. He was born in 1821 in Limestone County, Alabama, and practiced law in Selma. He died in 1907 in North Carolina. Pettus was a secessionist and lifelong supporter of white supremacy. US Highway 80, the route taken by marchers to ...

  7. Sep 15, 2013 · March 21, 1965 - About 3,200 people march out of Selma for Montgomery under the protection of federal troops. They walk about 12 miles a day and sleep in fields at night. March 25, 1965 - The ...

  8. Feb 7, 2024 · On March 7, 1965, acting on Bevel's plan, Hosea Williams of the SCLC and John Lewis of SNCC led a march of 600 people to walk the 54 miles (87 km) from Selma to the state capital in Montgomery. Six blocks into the march, at the Edmund Pettus Bridge where the marchers left the city and moved into the county, state troopers, and local county law ...

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