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Bloody Sunday March 7th 1964

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The march was a nonviolent peaceful protest from Selma Alabama to Montgomery Alabama. It was in 1965  along a 54 mile highway from Selma to Montgomery Alabama.The marchers were protected by federalized national guard troops.
Its purpose was to peacefully gain national awareness for voting rights.

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MLK jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist minister and social activist. He led the Civil Rights Movement in the mid 1950s until his assasination in 1968.

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John Lewis
He was chairman of the student nonviolent coordinating committee SNCC. On March 7 1965 he was with 600 people who assembled at a church in Selma to march to Montgomery AL . They prayed before they started walking silentyl 2 by 2 down the streets.
When they left Selma and go to the Edmund Pettus Bridge they were met by 150 state troopers and possee.
The marchers were ordered to disperse. After one minute they were attacked and John Lewis was one of 58 injured he had his skull fractured and attacked with tear gas.

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Hosea Williams
of the Sourhern  Christian Leadership Conference  SCLC

Leader of the demenstration along with John Lewis and som 600 othe people who assembled at a church in Selma AL to pray and started marching 2 y 2 to Montgomery AL. He was one of MLK jr inner circle of friends and civil rights leaders. He described himself as the THUG of the SCLC

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Feb 1965--Marches and demonstrations over voter registration prompt ALabama Govener Wallace to ban nighttime demonstration in Selma .

Feb 18 1965  During a march in Marion state troopers attack the demonstrattors. A trooper shoots and kills Jimmie Lee Jackson .

March 7 1965   600 people begin a march from selma to Montgomery Alabama, led by Lewis and Hosea Williams. Marchers demand an end to discrimmination in voter registration. At the Edmund Pettus bridge troopers and local lwa attack the marchers.
March 9  MLK jr leads another march to the bridge largely symbolic..

March 9th  President Johnson speaks out against the violence in Slema and urges both sides to respect the law.

March 10th   The US Justice Dept files suit in MOntgomery Alabama asking or an order to prevent the state from punishing any person in a demonstration for civil rights.

March 20th President JOhnson issues and executive order federalizing the Alabama state National guard and authorizes whatever federal forces the defense secretary deems necessary.

August 6 1965 PResident Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act o 1965

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SNCC
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Civil rights group formed to give younger blacks more of a voice in the civil rights movement. It soon became on of the movements most radical groupl

SCLC
SOuthern Christian Leadership Conference.
Is a african american civil rights organization. Is closely associated with its first president Martin Luther KIng jr who had a large role in the civil rights moement.

Alabama State Troopers
National GUardsman

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This shows and Alabama State trooper making the struggle for the african american to reach equality.
Shows how the government and society is making the struggle to gain equality very hard to reach.

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Selma to Montgomery March (stock footage / archival footage)

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The 15th ammendment was being violated , which all US citizens have the right to vote and shall not be denied the right to vote because of their race, color or previous condition of servitude.