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"The Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March: Shaking the Conscience of the Nation". National Park Service. U.S. Department of the Interior. "Conversation with Martin Luther King and Office Secretary, January 15, 1965". Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia. "March from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, Commencing March 21, 1965".
Map of the Selma to Montgomery marches route showing campsite locations. Participants in the Selma to Montgomery march on March 21–25, 1965, utilized four campsites along the route. 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.
The Selma to Montgomery March occurred on March 21 to 25, 1965, and was led by Dr Martin Luther King. [1] This march was the culmination of several weeks of activity, during which demonstrators had tried to march on two occasions. [1] They were stopped on both occasions, once violently, by the police. [1]
"How Long, Not Long" is the popular name given to the public speech delivered by Martin Luther King Jr. on the steps of the State Capitol in Montgomery, Alabama. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered this speech after the completion of the Selma to Montgomery March on March 25, 1965. [1] The speech is also known as "Our God Is Marching On!" [2]
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 ...
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 ...
James Gardner Clark, Jr. (September 17, 1922 – June 4, 2007) [1] was the sheriff of Dallas County, Alabama, United States from 1955 to 1966. He was one of the officials responsible for the violent arrests of civil rights protestors during the Selma to Montgomery marches of 1965, and is remembered as a racist whose brutal tactics included using cattle prods against unarmed civil rights ...
Lewis was only 25 when he believed Alabama troopers would kill him on the peaceful march for voting rights across the bridge on March 7, 1965, known today as “Bloody Sunday.”