history freedoms children chapter 7
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- We all have the ability to vote at free will! Nobody turns me away, or denies my right to vote when I try to either.
- That is not the case for me, unfortunately. Only about 150 of 150,000 African Americans were allowed to vote. Most were turned away.
- -Participating in the Selma movement-
- -Beings to beat down and brutally injure those participating- .
- We are all participating in the Selma protest together, no matter what our skin color is! Although past protests did not go the way we planned, we our determined to make this one a good one.
- Only 150 out of 150,000 African American people were eligible to vote, meaning they would never get one of their people into a position of power. However, they never gave up on their rights to vote and continuously tried to sign up. In result of this, they were sometimes arrested but they were always turned away when they wanted to register.
- On Sunday Morning, March 7th, 1965, a second protest happened because they were not going to give up. In result of this, they were met with multiple state guards who brutally assaulted them with innumerable forms of violence. This attack would then go down in history known as 'Bloody Sunday'.
- Hello, can we apply for a job here?
- Absolutely not!
- Many citizens, both white and black participated in the Selma march, which did not end up good. They were attacked and assaulted, but they did not lose their hope. They kept on trying and no matter what happened, they believed they can pull this off.
- THIS JUST IN: MARTIN LUTHER KING HAS BEEN ASSASSINATED AND CONFIRMED DEAD
- Following the failure of the first Selma march, they set out to have a second one that would be more successful than their previous one. It happened on March 21st, 1965. Martin Luther King Jr. was also involved in this march and took great care of those participating.
- Overtime, racism began to influx in popularity overtime. For example, African Americans were still denied their right to vote, and people were threatened to be killed if they were out protesting, or doing anything that the white people did not want them doing.
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