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May 8, 2024 · Edmund Pettus Bridge, site of Bloody Sunday (March 7, 1965), Selma, Alabama, 2006. In unilaterally scheduling the action for Sunday, March 7, King alienated a number of SNCC leaders, who resented the lack of a joint decision. Ultimately, they allowed their members to participate in the march as individuals, led by SNCC chairman John Lewis.
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Apr 25, 2024 · On March 7, 1965, as several hundred marchers crossed Selma’s steeply arched Edmund Pettus Bridge, Clark’s posse and state troopers brutally beat them. That evening, the television networks broadcast footage of what became known as “Bloody Sunday,” bringing the violence of Jim Crow into the living rooms of millions of Americans.
Apr 23, 2024 · In March 1965 Selma was the centre 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 crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge over the river on March 7 (known as “Bloody Sunday”) and then in the murder of Boston clergyman James J. Reeb—led to a massive nonviolent ...
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4 days ago · The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. [7] [8] It was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson during the height of the civil rights movement on August 6, 1965, and Congress later amended the Act five times to expand its protections. [7]
