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Mar 6, 2015 · Learn how the brutal attack on civil rights marchers in Selma, Alabama in 1965 sparked a national outcry and led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act. See photos, videos and eyewitness accounts of the violent clash at the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
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The event became known as Bloody Sunday. Law enforcement beat Boynton unconscious, and the media publicized worldwide a picture of her lying wounded on the bridge. The second march took place two days later but King cut it short as a federal court issued a temporary injunction against further marches.
- March 7–25, 1965
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.
Learn about the violent attack on civil rights marchers in Selma, Alabama, on March 7, 1965, that sparked the Voting Rights Act of 1965. See photos, videos, and vocabulary related to this historic event.
Mar 4, 2020 · On March 7, 1965, 600 civil rights protesters were attacked by white police as they marched from Selma to Montgomery. The violence sparked national outrage and led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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Learn about the 1965 voting rights campaign in Selma, Alabama, where Martin Luther King led thousands of nonviolent demonstrators in a 54-mile march to Montgomery. The march faced violence, federal intervention, and national attention after the "Bloody Sunday" attack by state troopers.
