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Lyndon B. Johnson. U.S. Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson speaking at the signing ceremony for the Voting Rights Act, August 6, 1965. (more) On March 15, just over a week after Bloody Sunday, Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson introduced voting rights legislation in an address to a joint session of Congress. In what became a famous speech, he identified the clash ...
Approximately at 3 p.m. on Sunday, March 7, 1965, 300 protestors, led by Hosea Williams, John Lewis, Albert Turner and Bob Mants, gathered at Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church in Selma and proceeded through town to the Edmund Pettus Bridge. At that point, the number of the marchers had swelled to 600 as they crossed the span from Selma toward their ...
Mar 6, 2022 · Brynn Anderson/AP. SELMA, Ala. — Vice President Kamala Harris visited Selma, Alabama, on Sunday to commemorate a defining moment in the fight for equal voting rights, even as congressional ...
Apr 4, 2016 · The First March: Bloody Sunday. On March 7, approximately 600 non-violent protestors, the vast majority being African-American, departed from Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church in Selma with the intent on marching 54-miles to Montgomery, as a memorial to Jimmy Lee Jackson and to protest for voter's rights.
Oct 29, 2009 · The March on Washington was a massive protest march that occurred in August 1963, when some 250,000 people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. The event aimed to draw ...
Aug 23, 2014 · One Small Step: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. marched with Rabbi Abraham Heschel (far right) in 1965. Image by Getty Images. By S. L. Wisenberg August 23, 2014. Selma. Nearly 50 years ago it was ...
Reverend James Reeb — social worker, Unitarian Universalist minister, and father of four — was severely beaten by a group of white men in Selma on March 9, 1965 and died two days later on March 11. Reeb had traveled to Selma to support the Civil Rights Movement following Bloody Sunday. Continue reading in the Encyclopedia of Alabama.
