Marches+from+Selma+to+Montgomery+1965

=**Marches from Selma to Montgomery 1965**=

1965 Selma to Montgomery march was key to Selma voting rights campaigns. November 1964, Dallas County Voters League and black civil rights organize in Selma. They wanted Martin Luther King Jr and SCLC to help protest against registration practices for discriminating against African Americans. The demonstrations created a lot of tension in Selma in January 1965. Many arrests were made under Sheriff James G. Clark Jr. more than 2,400 protesters were put in jail. 2,400 people arrested were released shortly because US district judge changed the boarder registry to be non-discriminatory. Since the SCLC got what they wanted in Selma they moved to other towns nearby. When a demonstration in Perry County went wrong six black protesters and three whit reporters were hospitalize on laborer jimmy Jackson die shortly after. The SCLC was very upset they called on black residents of the Black Belt to march on the capital on Montgomery.

After some controversy over the march the SCLC and its followers were met by the Dallas sheriffs department of March 7th this became known as “Bloody Sunday”. On Bloody Sunday, 56 protesters were hospitalized after being brutally tear gassed and beaten. Martin Luther King Jr asked Americans to join him in Selma and thousands went to Selma to aid Martin Luther King Jr. Kings attorney filed an injunction to stop Governor Wallace from interring with the protests. The protests were fed up with the Judge Johnson Jr which led to 2,500 marches across the Petty Bridge. Although the 1st protest didn’t work Johnson approved the march 5 days later. On March 21st a diverse group of protesters of 8,000 people marched out of Selma to Montgomery. On March 25th they arrived in Montgomery and Martin Luther King Jr addressed 25,000 people and reassured the end was near. Due to the national publicity the marches were significant to the voting rights act of 1965. [|2] [|3]