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600 people gathered around a church in Selma and started marching. This day was know as "Bloody Sunday" because the cops attacked the marchers.
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1,500 people gathered at the church and marched across the bridge. Dr.King was praying. They thankfully returned to the church.
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More than 3,000 people march. This march lasted four days.
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The marchers arrived in Montgomery on March 24. The next morning 25,000 people listened to Martin Luther King Jr. and many others as they spoke.
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President Lyndon Johnson passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The act allowed African Americans to vote without having to take the literacy test and many other disadvantages.
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After the success of the marches, Dr.King decided to continue using nonviolence. So he helped organize the Chicago Freedom Movement.
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By the end of 1960's African Americans were worn out from constant violence and thought the nonviolence act wouldn't protect them so they started arming themselves.
