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Mar 6, 2015 · On March 7, 1965, when then-25-year-old activist John Lewis led over 600 marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama and faced brutal attacks by oncoming state troopers, footage of...
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.
May 8, 2024 · Led by Martin Luther King, Jr., the march was the culminating event of several tumultuous weeks during which demonstrators twice attempted to march but were stopped, once violently, by local police. As many as 25,000 people participated in the roughly 50-mile (80-km) march.
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.
- March 7–25, 1965
Mar 21, 2023 · But historians and Selma natives say the marches wouldn't have come about without eight people in particular, all members of the Dallas County (Alabama) Voters League, known as the...
Nov 5, 2020 · On March 9, 1965, also known as “Turnaround Tuesday”, King led over 2,500 protesters to the Edmund Pettus Bridge, made a symbolic gesture through prayer and marched back to Selma. Later that night, a minister from Boston named James Reeb was brutally injured in Selma by members of the Ku Klux Klan.
