History

Black people were afraid to vote becausethey would get harrased by white people and would get fired from jobs and evicted from apartments if the people saw that they were voting

The SCLC left a mass meeting for a nighttimemarch when cops and a local mob attacked the crowd and news reporters saying 27 year old Jimmie Lee Jackson was shot trying to protect his mother

At the funeral of Jimmie Lee Jackson, Dr. King spoke and said that his death was an example of racism and that this government allows segregation and wouldn'tprotect their own citizens lives to vote which brings them together to end the struggle.

After Bloody Sunday, Dr. King asked for a national appeal asking people from around the country to come to them for a march. It was a success becausethousands of people joined black and white for it.

Because of all the murders, it brought momentum to the civil rights people becauseit showed they are non violent which helped to bring the change faster for safer voting rights.

As the result of the Selma Demonstrations, the president passed a law for voting rights which Congress passed a few months later and becauseof this over 9000 black Americans registered to vote and Sheriff Jim Clark went out of office.