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Jun 23, 2020 · Four lives were lost: Jimmie Lee Jackson, rev. James Reeb, Viola Liuzzo, and Jonathan Daniels. All four men that assaulted Reverend James Reeb were acquitted. Right after the third march concluded, Viola Liuzzo was shot by Ku Klux Klansmen who were driving past the protesters. In 1965, three protest marches were held in the United States to ...
Sep 15, 2013 · March 21, 1965 - About 3,200 people march out of Selma for Montgomery under the protection of federal troops. They walk about 12 miles a day and sleep in fields at night. March 25, 1965 - The ...
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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.
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 ...
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 ...
Mar 7, 2015 · Published March 7, 2015. The images are iconic: the horses, the tear gas, the billy clubs and bloodied bodies. It was March 7, 1965, when ordinary, working-class citizens were brutally attacked on ...
Selma to Montgomery March: March 21-25, 1965 . Voting Rights Act of 1965: signed into law on August 6, 1965 . Number of marchers on March 7, 1965: 600 . Number of protestors in Montgomery on March 25: 8,000 . Miles marched between Selma and Montgomery: approximately 50 . Days it took to walk from Selma to Montgomery: 5 (March 21 to March 25)
