How Did The March From Selma To Montgomery Impact
The March From Selma to Montgomery and The Impact It Left
In Birmingham Alabama, a small little church that served as a meeting place for civil rights leaders exploded. On September 15, 1963 a bomb exploded before Sunday morning services. Four young girls were killed during the explosion and many others was badly injured. Outrage over the incident with the four young girls’ deaths sparked violence that clashed between protesters and police. The march from Selma to Montgomery is important because it gave black African Americans a reason to fight for their rights to vote as an American citizen.
The event led to a march that started in the month of March in 1965. Leader in the Civil Rights movement, Martin Luther King Jr., held a march from Selma to the state capital of Montgomery. The march was part of a series of Civil Rights protests. On the first attempt of the march, Martin Luther King lead a number of 600 protesters on Sunday March 7. This attempt was called a demonstration. The protesters arrived at Edmund Pettus Bridge just outside the city where Alabama State troopers confronted protesters on the opposite side of the …show more content…
President Lyndon Johnson addressed a joint session of Congress, calling for federal voting rights legislation to protect African American from barriers that prevent them from voting. The march continued on Sunday, March 21 when about 3,200 marchers set out to the capital of Montgomery. By the time they reached the capital of Montgomery on Thursday, March 25, more than 25,000 additional nonviolent marchers joined along the way. The Selma to Montgomery march was part of a series of Civil Rights movements. That August, Congress passed the voting rights act which guaranteed the right to vote to all African Americans. Specifically, the act banned literacy tests as a requirement for voting mandated federal oversight of voter registration in areas where tests had previously been
In Birmingham Alabama, a small little church that served as a meeting place for civil rights leaders exploded. On September 15, 1963 a bomb exploded before Sunday morning services. Four young girls were killed during the explosion and many others was badly injured. Outrage over the incident with the four young girls’ deaths sparked violence that clashed between protesters and police. The march from Selma to Montgomery is important because it gave black African Americans a reason to fight for their rights to vote as an American citizen.
The event led to a march that started in the month of March in 1965. Leader in the Civil Rights movement, Martin Luther King Jr., held a march from Selma to the state capital of Montgomery. The march was part of a series of Civil Rights protests. On the first attempt of the march, Martin Luther King lead a number of 600 protesters on Sunday March 7. This attempt was called a demonstration. The protesters arrived at Edmund Pettus Bridge just outside the city where Alabama State troopers confronted protesters on the opposite side of the …show more content…
President Lyndon Johnson addressed a joint session of Congress, calling for federal voting rights legislation to protect African American from barriers that prevent them from voting. The march continued on Sunday, March 21 when about 3,200 marchers set out to the capital of Montgomery. By the time they reached the capital of Montgomery on Thursday, March 25, more than 25,000 additional nonviolent marchers joined along the way. The Selma to Montgomery march was part of a series of Civil Rights movements. That August, Congress passed the voting rights act which guaranteed the right to vote to all African Americans. Specifically, the act banned literacy tests as a requirement for voting mandated federal oversight of voter registration in areas where tests had previously been