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The Selma March for voting rights started on March 7, 1965 where about 600 civil rights marchers head out of Selma but the marchers were attack on Edmund Pettus Bridge by state and local lawmen who use billy clubs and tear gas. On March 9, when Martin Luther King Jr. led the symbolic march, the civil rights leader sought for protection from the court to protest from Selma to Montgomery and the court granted the marcher protection under the right to protest under the First Amendment. On March 21, about 3,200 marchers set out to Montgomery and reach the city on March 25.

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Nonviolent, protest, boycott, and marches

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Allowed any accused individual to have access to an attorney.

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Stopped segregation and discrimination in public accommodations.

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One of the major activist in the Civil Rights Movement, Dr. King led the Civil Rights Movement from the mid-1950s until his death in 1968. During his leadership of the movement, King led an massive march to Washington in 1963 and the march led him to deliver his most famous speech, "I have a dream" speech and the following year, his leadership led award the Noble Peace Prize. In 1965, Dr. King help lead the Selma march due to the fact that days before, the marchers were met with brutal force by local and statesmen. Dr. King was assassinated on April 4, 1968 on the balcony of a motel in Memphis, Tennessee.

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This case is a prime exmaple of the first amendment freedoms being developed during the civil rights movements.

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Supreme Court ruled the National Association for Advancement of Colored People had the right to refer individuals who wanted to sue public school desegregation cases lawyers and to pay their ;litigation expenses.

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In this cartoon the African Americans are trying the cross the bridge but are being restricted from voting. This shows the struggle and how hard it was for African- Americans to vote and have nonviolent protest.

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Was an American politician and a major person in the Civil Rights Movement. John Lewis became an Civil Rights activist after he attended Seminary where he learned all about nonviolent protest and later on help organized a sit-in at a segregated lunch counter. In 1965, John Lewis organized a non-violent protest in Selma after seeing that voting in the south for African American was very difficult so he decide led the march but on the first day, was attack by local and state officers and was injured with a fracture skull. After the death of Dr. King, John Lewis went to run for office in House of Representative and won a seat in Georgia 5th District.

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Played a role in the civil rights movement. The rights of free speech and assembly enabled protesters on the streets of Selma and other cities throughout the south to force society to address the treatment of African- Americans.

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The first attempt of the march from Selma to the state capital Montgomery was a failed attempt to a peaceful protest. The police were brutal the marchers and were chased down, beaten, and tear gassed . On the second attempt with Dr. Martin Luther King jr. himself, made demonstrators more determined to participate. They were stopped by police again. On the third attempt, King and other religious leaders from all faiths (priests, nuns and rabbis) and colors marched with him. By the time they reached the capital more than 30,000 people had joined the march. Other organizations like the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) had been campaigning for voting rights.

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granted citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the United States" which includes former slaves recently freed.

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Granted African-American men the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."

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One of Dr. King major trusted officer of SCLC during the Civil Right Movement, before becoming an important figure in the Civil Rights Movement, Hosea served in World War II in a black unit under George Patton. After World War II, Hosea the NAACP after being nearly killed for using a white only water fountain and in 1965 along with John Lewis, Hosea helped led the Salem March but on the first day, was attack by local and state people but later on with Dr.King help, continue the march. After Dr.King death, Hosea founded Hosea Feed the Hungry and Homeless Food International and the organization has helped donate billions of supplies to millions around the world. In 2000, Hosea died from kidney cancer but was considered of one the most important figure in the Civil Right Movement.

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The SNCC or the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee , was a major Civil Rights Movement   that first emerged with organizes sit-ins and throughout it's history, three members of SNCC were killed by members of the KKK. At first, the SNCC was the only group that led the Selma march but after the attacks, the group decide to ask the SCLC to help with the march.
The SCLC or Southern Christian Leadership Conference, led by Martin Luther King Jr., was founded in 1957 after the Montgomery Bus boycott. The group role in the Selma march is that after Bloody Sunday, the SNCC ask the SCLC and Dr. King to help with march and ask for protection with the march.

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November 1964- The Southern Christian Leadership Conference led by Dr. King, begin to consider to campaign in Selma due to the fact that less than 2% of African Americans are registered to vote.
January 1965-  Dr. King  launch the campaign.
February 1965- Dr. King and at least 500 school children were arrested for marching near Marion.
March 7,1965- The first march in Selma begin but was met with attack calling this day "Bloody Sunday", which cause Dr. King to join and asking other religious leaders to join him.
March 15, 1965- Several Leaders of UU joined hundreds of marchers in Selma
March 21, 1965- 25,000 marchers from the Selma March, march in the street of Montgomery.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKsVr6cjp-4