We march with selma

Selma March

By ldavidson7657
  • October 7, 1963

    October 7, 1963

    Known as Freedom Day, around 350 African American's lined up to register to vote at the Dallas County Court House.

  • February 4, 1964

    President Lyndon B Johnson makes his first public statement supporting the Selma events.

  • February 6, 1964

    President Lyndon B Johnson makes a statement that he will urge congress to vote on the voting rights bill.
  • March 5, 1965

    March 5, 1965

    Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. meets with the President to discuss the voting rights bill.

  • March 7, 1965

    Bloody Sunday - John Lewis and Hosea Williams lead more than 600 people on a march. Marchers were meet on the Edmund Pettus Bridge by Police Force. https://youtu.be/a6InULio9fo
  • March 9, 1965

    March 9, 1965

    Turnaround Tuesday. Marchers included more than 2000 people. More than half of them were white and two-thirds were members of the clergy.

  • March 21, 1965

    More than 8000 people met at Brown's Chapel for a five day march.

  • March 25, 1965 (day)

    Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "How Long, Not Long" speech.

  • March 25, 1965 (night)

    Viola Liuzzo, was a white mother of 5 who had driven from Detroit to protest for black civil rights was shot and killed by the kkk.
  • August 6, 1965

    August 6, 1965

    President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act.