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Representatives of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee come to Selma and begin staging protests -
Resources
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/03/05/black-history-bloody-sunday-timeline/24463923/
https://digital.archives.alabama.gov/digital/collection/amg/id/36087
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/06/lbj-signs-voting-rights-act-aug-6-1965-241256
https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2015/03/60-second_know-it-all_dr_marti.html
https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/mar/07
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Jimmie_Lee_Jackson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_M._Hare -
In what would be known as "Freedom Day," about 350 blacks line up to register to vote at the Dallas County Courthouse. Registrars go as slowly as possible and take a two-hour lunch break. Few manage to register, most of those are denied, but the protest is considered a huge victory by civil rights advocates -
Dallas County Circuit Court Judge James Hare issues an injunction effectively forbidding gatherings of three or more people to discuss civil rights or voter registration in Selma. -
King begins his Selma campaign when about 700 African Americans show up for a meeting at Brown Chapel in defiance of the injunction -
State troopers attack marchers during a protest in Marion. State trooper James Bonard Fowler shoots and kills Jimmie Lee Jackson, a 26-year-old deacon of the St. James Baptist Church. Fowler was charged with murder in 2007. He pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter in 2010, when he was 67, saying he thought Jackson had been reaching for a weapon. He was sentenced to six months, but was released after five because of failing health. -
In what would become known as "Bloody Sunday," John Lewis and Hosea Williams lead about 600 people on what is intended to be a march from Selma to Montgomery. Clark and his deputies meet the marchers at the Edmund Pettus Bridge The marchers refuse to disperse. They were hit with billy clubs and tear gas, with 16 being hospitalized and at least 50 others injured. The national coverage of the event galvanizes the country, and King calls for volunteers to come to Selma for another march on March 9. -
https://youtu.be/snx58o2kwoc
This is a clip from the marches to give you a better visual -
Martin Luther King Jr. leads another march to the Edmund Pettus Bridge. About 2,000 people, more than half of them white and about a third members of the clergy, participate in the second march. King leads the march to the bridge, then tells the protesters to disperse. The march becomes known as Turnaround Tuesday. -
About 8,000 people assemble at Brown Chapel before starting the five-day march to Montgomery's Capitol. -
President Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act into law.