"In 1965, the attempted march from Selma to Montgomery on March 7 was planned to dramatize to the state of Alabama and to the nation that people of color wanted to register to vote." -John Lewis
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"Bloody Sunday" |
Effects of the March |
On "Bloody Sunday", around 600 civil rights marchers started to make their way down to Montgomery but could not make is farther than the Edmund Pettus Bridge which was only six blocks away from were they started. There they were attacked with billy clubs and tear gas by local authorities and white vigilante groups.
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Martin Luther King met with the president to talk about the voting rights of the black citizens. After Lyndon B Johnson saw the unjustified murders and what happened during "Bloody Sunday", he requested a strict voting rights bill. Congress passed the Voting Rights ACt of 1965 on August which became official when President Johnson signed it on August 6th. This became the 15th amendment.
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