Why Is Bloody Sunday So Effective For The Dlc?

Bloody Sunday was unintentional but strategically successful for the SCLC. On March 7, 1965, John Lewis led a group of nonviolent protesters on 54-mile march from Selma to Montgomery. However, when they reached the Edmund Puttus Bridge they encountered state troopers led by Sheriff Clark. After John Lewis asked to pray, the state troopers began to lumber towards the protesters and attack them with clubs and teargas. The images of the helpless protesters began to circulate throughout the nation and around the world. For the SCLC this was a strategically success, according Adam Furlough the SCLC “sought to evoke dramatic violence rather than deadly violence.” Displaying how important it was for the SCLC that the media noticed the violence directed toward nonviolent protesters. However, the marcher did not expect violence to accrue that, day but they prepared for it never the less. Charles Walden one of the marchers present that day recollects the warnings he was given about
At 9 o'clock on Sunday afternoon, ABC was running a three-hour movie about the Nuremberg trials and the Holocaust, showing images of unjustifiable hatred and prejudiced against a minority that had done nothing to deserve it. Some viewer images juxtaposed the images of the Holocaust with the images of the Selma marchers. One man recalls his emotions while watching the report stating, “I have just witnessed the new sequel to Adolf Hitler’s brown shirts. They were George Wallace’s blue shirts. The scene in Alabama looked like scenes on old newsreels of Germany in the 1930s.” Similar emotions like this resonated throughout the country. Even Martin Luther King witnessed these events through the television. The images shown on television not only caused king to form a second march but also rallied support throughout the nation foe the voting rights