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"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
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]
The march followed a 54-mile (87 km) route along U.S. Highway 80 from Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church in Selma through Lowndes County to the State Capitol in Montgomery. Lowndes County had earned the nickname "Bloody Lowndes" due to anti-Black violence, and was particularly symbolic for the march organizers. [1]
This year marks the 58th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday." On March seventh, 1965, a group of peaceful marchers planned to make their way from Selma, Alabama to Montgomery, Alabama to protest voting ...
Amelia Isadora Platts Boynton Robinson (August 18, 1905 – August 26, 2015) was an American activist who was a leader of the American Civil Rights Movement in Selma, Alabama, [1] and a key figure in the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches.
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 ...
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 ...
Viola Fauver Liuzzo (née Gregg; April 11, 1925 – March 25, 1965) was an American civil rights activist in Detroit, Michigan.She was known for going to Alabama in March 1965 to support the Selma to Montgomery march for voting rights.