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In March 2005, a re-enactment of the march took place to commemorate its 40th anniversary. [5] This anniversary led to the creation of a pedestrian walk around Selma. [6] In 2015 the Marion to Selma Connecting Trail was designated to connect the Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail with the site of Jimmie Lee Jackson's murder. [7]
"Selma & the March to Montgomery: A Discussion: November–June, 2004–2005". Civil Rights Movement Archive. Tougaloo College. "1965: Police attack Alabama marchers". BBC News, March 7, 2005. "Selma-to-Montgomery 1965 Voting Rights March". Alabama Department of Archives & History. Archived at the Internet Archive, March 16, 2009
The final night of the march, March 24, participants camped at the City of St. Jude, a Roman Catholic church, school, and hospital complex. Established in 1937, St. Jude was intended to be a social service center for Montgomery's Black community. When the hospital opened in 1951, it was the first fully integrated hospital in Alabama.
The landmark voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965 didn't happen in just one day: Participants spent four nights camping along the roughly 55-mile (89-kilometer) route through ...
The campus hosted the Stars for Freedom rally on the night of March 24, 1965, where celebrities volunteered to entertain weary marchers on the final night of the Selma to Montgomery marches. The campus was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990, and is part of the Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail, created in 1996. [1]
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55 years ago, In the spring of 1965, Lynda Blackmon was the youngest civil rights marcher to walk with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. from Selma to Montgomery. She was beaten by police and needed 29 ...
National Voting Rights Museum and Institute. The National Voting Rights Museum and Institute, established in 1991 and opened in 1993, is an American museum in Selma, Alabama, which honors, chronicles, collects, archives, and displays the artifacts and testimony of the activists who participated in the events leading up to and including the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches, and passage of the ...