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- Selma, AL
- Selma, AL was a former slave market town. Nearly half the voting age population was black. However, only one percent of them were registered. Every time a black person tried to go register, they would get harassed by police and state troopers. Civil Right activist knew that they had to do something.
- I am mad at Martin Luther King Jr making us walk a long time to the bridge, but then at the end not even go to the capital. He is a coward!
- One Particular day, a lot of black people were at a church in Marion, AL for a meeting. When people started leaving the church police and mobs attacked the crowd. One of the people killed was 27-year old Jimmie Lee Jackson. This incident and many other reasons made James Bevel organize a 15 mile march to the capital in Montgomery.
- For Segregation
- On March 7, 1965bloody Sunday occurred. Hundreds of black people left Brown Chapel and they were going to march to the capital. They were headed for the Edmund Pettus Bridge, and there they were met once again by police and state troopers. The police and troopers viscously beated them and sprayed tear gas.
- My fellow Americans, I have passed a new voting bill that will allow all Americans to vote, without unnecessary voting rules.
- Two days later the second march took place, white and black people both joined, however when Martin Luther King Jr led them to the Bridge, the police let them through. King turned the group around because he believed the troopers wanted a opportunity to be able to arrest them. protestors thought King was a coward.
- That night, a group of people who were for segregation attacked a protestor named James Reeb, he was young and white. Alabama state officials didn't want these protest to go on, but a district court judge allowed them to keep on protesting. Six days later, President Johnson said he was going to pass a new voting rights bill. He knew the problem and needed to do something about it.
- As a result of these Selma demonstrations, President Johnson passed a voting bill that would protect everyone and Congress passed it a year later. This law suspended the literacy tests and discrimination voting rules.
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