PRESENTATION OUTLINE
SELMA TO MONTGOMERY MARCHES
On 25 March 1965, Martin Luther King led thousands of nonviolent demonstrators to the steps of the capital Montgomery, Alabama.
On January 2 , 1965 King SCLC joined the SNCC , the Dallas County Voters League and other local African American activists in a voting rights campaign n Selma where , in spite of repeated registration attempts by local blacks , not two percent were on the voting roll.
The campaign in Selma and nearby Marion, Alabama, progressed with mass arrests but little violence for the ï¬rst month.
That evening King began a blitz of telegrams and public statements, ‘‘calling on religious leaders from all over the nation to join us on Tuesday in our peaceful, nonviolent march for freedom’’ (King, 7 March 1965).
On 6 August, in the presence of King and other civil rights leaders, President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
