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SELMAAAAAAAA :(

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a man talking to his son about the tragedy.

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what amendments are being violated in selma act 

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what amendments are being violated in selma act 

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the first amendment plays a big part in of the civil rights movement (freedom of speech )

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Students will learn about the 1965 marches from Selma to Montgomery during the Civil Rights Movement. They will examine the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and watch clips from the movie Selma. Most importantly, students will think critically about sources of information.

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November 1964 -  DR MLK and the SCLC begin a campaign in selma, where less than 2 percent of registered african americans are registered
January 2 1965  - King launches the selma campaign with a rally  at brown chapel
January 22 1965 - 105 black school teachers defy the superintendent and rally at the Dallas County courthouse in Selma
March 21, 1965 - with the national guard protecting them 3200 marchers leave Selma for Montgomery
March 25 1965 - 25,000 demonstrators join the marchers when they reach Montgomery for a final rally at the state Capitol.
April 1965 -  3 men were indicted for the murder of James Reeb
May 1965 - one of the klansmen arrested for liuzzo’s murder turns out to be an FBI informer who testified against the other three. Each is aquitted
August 6 1965 - president johnson signs the voting rights act into law

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Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

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Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

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A civil rights group that was founded in 1957 , in Atlanta georgia and it  advocated confrontation of segregation through civil dissent. It quickly moved tot the forefront of the civil rights groups which was also known as "The Big 5" which included the national association for the advancement of colored people (NAACP), National Urban League (NUL), the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committe (SNCC), and the Congress On Racial Equality (CORE).

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on march 7, 1965 several civil rights people headed on us route 80, while walking lawmen attacked them with clubs anf tear gas which drove them back into selma.

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Was a baptist minister and graduated with a B.S. degree from Alabama State University in 1950. His love/passion for mathematics changed to sociology and he earned a M.A. degree from the same school (ASU).

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https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ralph-David-Abernathy
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/selma-montgomery-march
https://www.nps.gov/subjects/civilrights/sclc.htm
https://www.uuworld.org/articles/timeline-the-selma-civil-rights-campaign
https://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/al4.htm

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Fred Shuttlesworth was a Baptist Minister who was one of the top leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, working with Martin Luther King Jr. and the SCLC.

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Born on March 18, 1922, in Mount Meigs, Alabama, Fred Shuttlesworth was a Baptist minister and one of the South's most prominent Civil Rights leaders. He worked closely with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., co-founding the SCLC and organizing direct-action protests in Birmingham, refusing to waver even after multiple attacks. Also a community activist in Cincinnati, he died on October 5, 2011.

Background and Call to Pulpit

Freddie Lee Robinson was born in Mount Meigs, Alabama, on March 18, 1922. Born to a large clan that eventually moved to Birmingham when he was a toddler, Robinson took the surname Shuttlesworth from his stepfather, William, who had married his mother Alberta and worked as a farmer and coal miner.

Graduating valedictorian from his high school, Fred Shuttlesworth worked assorted jobs before finding his calling to the pulpit, studying at the ministerial institution Selma University and earning his B.A. in 1951, later earning his B.S. from Alabama State College.

Civil Rights Leader

Shuttlesworth became pastor of Birmingham's Bethel Baptist Church in 1953. After the Brown v. Board of Education ruling, he was further inspired to actively participate in the growing Civil Rights Movement. He called for the hiring of African-American police officers and, with the outlawing of the NAACP in his home state, Shuttlesworth established the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights in 1956.

He also co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with other leaders, including Martin Luther King Jr. and Bayard Rustin. Shuttlesworth, with King and fellow minister Ralph D. Abernathy, would later be seen as one of the movement's "Big Three."

After the desegregation of Montgomery busses due to the citywide boycott inspired by Rosa Parks, Shuttlesworth was organizing efforts in his city to implement bus desegregation as well when his residence was bombed on Christmas, with the pastor inside. He nonetheless steadfastly proceeded with plans; later, when he and his wife took their daughter to integrate a white school, the couple were brutally attacked by a Ku Klux Klan mob.

Youth Protests and Voting Rights

Shuttlesworth held fast to his firm belief in direct action and was a key leader throughout the history of the movement, though he had relocated to Cincinnati in the early 1960s and hence routinely travelled back to the South. After the May 14, 1961, attacks on the Freedom Riders, Shuttlesworth provided refuge for the activists, with outreach made to Attorney General Robert Kennedy for assistance. He also convinced Dr. King to have Birmingham become a focal point of the movement and organized well-documented youth-driven marches and protests, in which he was badly hurt at one point in 1963. And Shuttlesworth was an organizer of the 1965 Selma to Montgomery voting rights march.

Shuttlesworth was arrested many, many times over the course of his activism, yet in later interviews would talk about the power of his faith in sustaining him.

Later Years

Shuttlesworth later established the Greater New Light Baptist Church in the middle of the 1960s in Cincinnati. Fast forward to the 1980s, and he founded another organization, the Shuttlesworth Housing Foundation, providing grants for home ownership.

In the new millennium, Shuttlesworth received the Presidential Citizens Medal from Bill Clinton in 2001, with the Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport named in his honor in 2008. Shuttlesworth also became president of the SCLC mid-decade, though he soon left due to disagreements with the internal workings of the organization.

In 2007, Fred Shuttlesworth moved back to Birmingham, where died on October 5, 2011, at 89 years old. The minister at one point had thought he wouldn't live to see 40, dwelling in the Deep South during tumult. He was survived by Sephira Bailey, his second wife, and a large family. An award-winning 1999 biography on Shuttlesworth- A Fire You Can't Put Out -was penned by Andrew M. Manis.

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Fred Shuttlesworth was a Baptist Minister who was one of the top leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, working with Martin Luther King Jr. and the SCLC. Born on March 18, 1922, in Mount Meigs, Alabama, Fred Shuttlesworth was a Baptist minister and one of the South's most prominent Civil Rights leaders.

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MLK, and The SCLC decided to make selma the focus of black voter registration. MLK won the nobel peace prize in 1964.

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Fred was a baptist minister , he was also a civil rights activist and worked alongside Martin Luther King Jr. he helped co-found the SCLC and helped organize a direct action protests in birmingham refusing to waver even after multiple attacks.