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Selma to Montgomery

Published on Feb 06, 2016

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Selma to Montgomery

  • March from Selma to Montgomery protesting Voting Rights Movement for the blacks
  • Jimmy Lee Jackson's death contributed to the 54 mile march to Montgomery
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  • A majority of black people populated Selma and they couldn't vote.
  • March 7th 1965
  • March 21st - 25th
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  • Mostly involving a total of 25,000 pedestrians
  • Martin Luther King Jr. (leading the march on March 21st to the 25th, from Selma to Montgomery)
  • Also John Lewis who lead the first march on March 7th 1965 from Selma to Edmund Pettus bridge
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Connection

  • Connected to Secret Life of bees because the book talks a bit about black people voting and this event is protesting the cause of black people being able to vote.

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