Freedom Children Ch. 7
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- 1/2 of voters were black, but only 1% (150) registered voters
- Marches from the courthouse to downtown stores, with mass arrests
- Jimmie Lee Jackson had been killed at a night march. 50 mile march to protest his death ended in vicious beating, the Bloody Sunday
- Thousands marched from Brown Chapel to the city capitol, the group delegation demanded an end to voting rights restrictions
- It might be the most effective in any civil rights legislation for equality for black people in America. Next year, 9k black people had registered.
- Johnson passed a law to protect voting rights. This law suspended discriminatory voting rules.
- At the end of the rally in Montgomery, Viola Liuzzo had driven marchers back to Selma. When she was returning back to Montgomery a car of KKK members shot her through her car window.
- Jimmie Lee Jackson, James Reeb, JonathanDaniels, Viola Liuzzohad all been violently killed in this fight for rights
- James Reeb volunteered all the way from Bostom as clergy for MLK, he was clubbed to death as he left a restaurant
- Jimmie Lee Jackson had been shot by police, because he tried to protect his mother from brutal beatings
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