Selma march
Civil rights walk
The Selma marches were three 1965 protest marches in Alabama demanding voting rights for Black Americans.
Marchers attempted to walk from Selma to Montgomery, the state capital.
The first march ended in violent police attacks on peaceful protesters at the Edmund Pettus Bridge—images that shocked the nation and galvanized support for the Voting Rights Act.
The Selma march changed the course of the civil rights movement.
- Bloody SundayViolent suppression of civilians
- tear gasEye-irritating riot dispersant
- bridge crossingPassage across a span
- arm in armWith elbows linked
- nonviolent resistanceProtest through peaceful means
Freedom Riders · Brown v. Board of Education · Martin Luther King Jr. · NAACP · racial integration · racial equality · John Lewis · foot soldiers · Voting Rights Act · voter registration drives · civil disobedience · we shall overcome · legal reforms · Coretta Scott King · Birmingham campaign · boycotts · Civil Rights Act · Little Rock Nine
- civil rightsequal protection, equal rights, Civil Rights Act, right to life, Voting Rights Act
- 1965Voting Rights Act, Watts riots, Sound of Music, Medicare, Medicaid
- Alabama HistoryMontgomery, Birmingham, Montgomery bus boycott, Martin Luther King Jr., statehood
- LBJ EraLBJ, Great Society, Vietnam War, War on Poverty, Civil Rights Act
- Peaceful Protestnonviolence, civil disobedience, peaceful protest, passive resistance, peaceful resistance
- Southern HistoryDeep South, Antebellum, Old South, Dixie, Confederate
Selma marchJim Crow laws
Post-Reconstruction racial separation statutes
segregation · lynching · voter suppression · lynch mobs · poll taxes
Selma marchriot
Violent public disturbance
armed insurrection · Watts riots · Detroit riots · guerrilla warfare · terrorism