2010年1月28日 · The Selma to Montgomery march was part of a series of civil‑rights protests that occurred in 1965 in Alabama, a Southern state with deeply entrenched racist policies.

The Selma to Montgomery marches were three protest marches, held in 1965, along the 54-mile (87 km) highway from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital of Montgomery.

On 25 March 1965, Martin Luther King led thousands of nonviolent demonstrators to the steps of the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, after a 5-day, 54-mile march from Selma, Alabama, where local African Americans, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) had been campaigning for ...

2025年1月13日 · Selma March, political march led by Martin Luther King, Jr., from Selma, Alabama, to the state’s capital, Montgomery, that occurred March 21–25, 1965. The march became a landmark in the American civil rights movement and directly led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

2016年4月4日 · On March 7, approximately 600 non-violent protestors, the vast majority being African-American, departed from Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church in Selma with the intent on marching 54-miles to Montgomery, as a memorial to Jimmy Lee …

2024年3月7日 · The 1965 Selma to Montgomery march was the climactic event of the Selma voting rights demonstrations. It provided some of the most recognized imagery of the civil rights movement and sparked several infamous crimes.

2024年10月29日 · Established by Congress in 1996, the Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail commemorates the people, events, and route of the 1965 Voting Rights March in Alabama. Led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Black and White non-violent supporters fought for the right to vote in Central Alabama.

On March 7, 1965, when then-25-year-old activist John Lewis led over 600 marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama and faced brutal attacks by oncoming state troopers,...

On March 7, later known as “Bloody Sunday,” demonstrators in Selma begin a march to Montgomery to peacefully protest Jackson’s death, ongoing police violence against the voter-registration campaign, and sweeping violations of African Americans’ civil rights.

1 天前 · About 1,000 miles away, in Selma, Alabama, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was preparing to lead a 54-mile voting rights march to the state capitol, Montgomery. It was a just cause, and we ...