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Jun 23, 2020 · selma, alabama / usa - march 1, 2020. Image credit: Michael Scott Milner / Shutterstock.com Four lives were lost: Jimmie Lee Jackson, rev. James Reeb, Viola Liuzzo, and Jonathan Daniels.
- Thelma Dianne Harris: ‘We Were Treated as If We Were Criminals’
- Charles Mauldin: ‘Either We Were Going to Go Forward Or Were Going to Die’
- Harriet Michel: ‘It Was Just A Moment Your Heart Stops’
- Donzaleigh Abernathy: ‘We Had to Do Our Part in This Small Window of Time’
- Selma in 2020: ‘The Struggle Continues’
The Civil Rights Act was passed in in 1964 after years of demonstrations against segregation in the south, but the act excluded a key protection: the right to vote. Around late January and early February of 1965, 15-year-old Thelma Dianne Harris was eating lunch with friends outside her Selma high school when a member of the Student Nonviolent Coor...
After the killing, civil rights group groups called for a march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama’s capital, and encouraged young people in Selma to join them. The organizers asked questions like “Why can’t your parents vote?” or “Why do you have to drink from the colored fountain?”, recalled Charles Mauldin, then 17 and a junior at the local high ...
After Bloody Sunday, organizers spread the word about a larger march in Selma, encouraging people across the country to join them and ratchet up pressure on federal officials to halt the violence. Harriet Michel, then 22, was one of about 18 students and staff from Juniata College in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania who heeded the call. Rather than Selma, ...
Following Johnson’s address, a federal judge overturned Alabama governor George Wallace’s prohibition on demonstrations. And Johnson ordered the national guard and US army to protect marchers, who began the trek to Montgomery, aiming to cover about 10 miles a day. In a photo showing the front row on the fourth day of the march, three children are s...
The marches prompted Congress to pass a bill to protect voting rights. On 6 August 1965, Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, which gave federal authorities oversight of election practices in states where voting discrimination was common. Yet as the “footsoldiers” of the civil rights movement gather in Selma 55 years later, there is a shared sense...
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Natasha Geiling. January 14, 2015. 1 / 15. Marchers arriving at City of St. Jude, in Montgomery, at the final encampment. James Barker. 2 / 15. Marchers joined by thousands arrive at the outskirts ...
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 ...
6 days ago · 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.
Dec 11, 2023 · The Selma Marches were a series of three marches that took place in 1965 from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. These marches were organized to protest the blocking of Black Americans' right to vote by the systematic racist structure of the Jim Crow South. With the leadership of groups such as the Dallas County Voters League (DCVL), the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and the ...
Jan 28, 2010 · The Selma to Montgomery march was part of a series of civil-rights protests that occurred in 1965 in Alabama, a Southern state with deeply entrenched racist policies. The historic 54-mile march ...
