The Selma to Montgomery marches were three protest marches, held in 1965, along the 54-mile (87 km) highway from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital of ...

Jan 28, 2010 · The Selma to Montgomery march was part of a series of civil-rights protests that occurred in 1965 in Alabama, a Southern state with deeply ...

The marchers made their way through Selma across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where they faced a blockade of state troopers and local lawmen commanded by Clark and ...

Fifty years ago, on March 7, 1965, hundreds of people gathered in Selma, Alabama to march to the capital city of Montgomery. They marched to ensure that African ...

Dec 11, 2023 · The Selma Marches were a series of three marches that took place in 1965 from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. These marches were organized to ...

(March 21, 1965-March 25, 1965) protest to support voting rights for African Americans, taking the form of a 87-kilometer (54-mile) walk between the Alabama ...

Selma March, political march led by Martin Luther King, Jr., from Selma, Alabama, to the state's capital, Montgomery, that occurred March 21–25, 1965.

Jan 6, 2024 · First March Attempt. On March 7th, approximately 600 non-violent protestors, the vast majority being African-American, departed from Brown ...

The plan was to walk fifty miles from Selma to Montgomery in a peaceful march. On what would later be known as “Bloody Sunday,” demonstrators attempted to march ...

Apr 4, 2016 · Church in Selma with the intent on marching 54-miles to Montgomery, as a memorial to Jimmy Lee Jackson and to protest for voter's rights. As ...