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For 100 years after African Americans were granted the right to vote, that right was steadily taken away. In March 1965, thousands of people held a series of marches in the U.S. state of Alabama in an effort to get that right back.
Mar 7, 2015 · It was March 7, 1965, when ordinary, working-class citizens were brutally attacked on the Edmund Pettus Bridge by Alabama law enforcement during a march from Selma to the state Capitol in ...
This infographic presents a timeline and maps concerning the civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in March 1965. At the time, Selma was the center of an African American voter-registration drive led by Martin Luther King, Jr. Local violence against civil rights activists—culminating in an attack by police on demonstrators ...
Nov 24, 2017 · How Many People Died on the Titanic? The Titanic sank in the early morning of April 15, 1912, in the Northern Atlantic Ocean. The Royal Mail Steamer (RMS) Titanic was built by the White Star Company in the UK and owned by American tycoon J.P Morgan. The Titanic met its fate while on its maiden voyage to New York when it struck an iceberg and sank two
James Reeb died 50 years ago today, after a vicious beating by white segregationists in Selma, Ala. But those at the DC church where he once ministered recalled his life of commitment and compassion.
Jul 9, 2020 · Scenes from the march to commemorate Bloody Sunday, 55 years later. Image credit: Michael Scott Milner / Shutterstock.com. The Selma to Montgomery marches were three marches held in 1965 to shed light on the racial injustices going on in the United States at the time.
Selma March - LBJ, Voting Rights, 1965: 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 in Selma as a turning point in U.S. history akin to the Battles of Lexington and Concord in the American Revolution. Invoking the protest song ...
