Selma Alabama Civil Rights Movement Essay

This essay will discuss the connection between the protest movement in Selma, Alabama and the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. In addition, it will cover the roles in which the Alabama law officials, the national media attention, and the demonstrators from out of state played in the passage of the Voting Rights Act. In Selma, Alabama in 1965 the Voting Rights Campaign protest had begun, leading to the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. The campaign was to help register African Americans in Selma so they could vote. SNCC had been working in Selma for over a year trying to register people to vote. After being unsuccessful the leaders of SCLC were called in to help. The presents of Martin Luther King opened up an out revelry between SCLC and SNCC. After putting aside
The violence of the "Bloody Sunday" and of Reeb's death led to a national turmoil and some acts of civil rebellion, directed towards the Alabama state and the federal government. The protesters demanded protection for the Selma marchers and a new federal voting rights law to enable African Americans to register and vote without harassment. President Johnson, already having his administration working on a voting rights law, held nationwide televised joint assembly of Congress on the 15th of March to ask for the bill's introduction and passage. After the demands for protection from the marchers, Governor Wallace still refused to provide protection, which lead President Johnson. The third march started on the 21st of March. Over 2,000 soldiers of the U.S. Army, 1,900 members of the Alabama National Guard under Federal command, were sent to provide protection. The marchers arrived in Montgomery on the 24th of March. Continuing on to the State Capitol on the 25th of March the marchers had grown to 25,000 people support of voting