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Bloody Sunday

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2016

Raymond Gavins
Raymond Gavins
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Duke University, North Carolina
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Culminating their voter registration campaign in Selma and Dallas County, Alabama and nearby counties, civil rights activists planned to march the fifty-four miles from Selma to Montgomery and rally at the State Capitol.

They began on Sunday, March 7, 1965. Following John Lewis (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee [SNCC]) and Hosea Williams (Southern Christian Leadership Conference [SCLC]), 600 marchers made it six blocks to Selma's Pettus Bridge, where they were stopped by state troopers and sheriff deputies. Then, in full view of the media, lawmen rushed them with clubs, tear gas, and whips. Televised images of the attack and bloodied marchers created public outrage and helped compel Congress's passage of the Voting Rights Act.

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The Cambridge Guide to African American History , pp. 38
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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References

Combs, Barbara. From Selma to Mongomery: The Long March to Freedom. New York: Routledge, 2013.
Garrow, David J.Bearing the Cross Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. New York: Quill, 1999.

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  • Bloody Sunday
  • Raymond Gavins, Duke University, North Carolina
  • Book: The Cambridge Guide to African American History
  • Online publication: 05 March 2016
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316216453.043
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  • Bloody Sunday
  • Raymond Gavins, Duke University, North Carolina
  • Book: The Cambridge Guide to African American History
  • Online publication: 05 March 2016
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316216453.043
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  • Bloody Sunday
  • Raymond Gavins, Duke University, North Carolina
  • Book: The Cambridge Guide to African American History
  • Online publication: 05 March 2016
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316216453.043
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