Social Mvmts: Selma to Montgomery March

This board explores the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march & the efforts to secure voting rights for blacks that preceded it. In Feb., while breaking up a march in Marion, police shot and killed Jimmie Jackson as he attempted to protect his mother. In response, activists set out on 3/7, to march from Selma to Montgomery. In Selma, police attacked the marchers in what would become known as ‘‘Bloody Sunday.’’ On 3/25, Martin Luther King, Jr. finally led thousands to the Montgomery capitol building.
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James Baldwin, Joan Baez, and James Forman (left to right) enter Montgomery, Alabama on the Selma to Montgomery march for voting rights, 1965. Photo credit: James Karales
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Dear America
Artist: Shanequa Gay
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"I was beaten, my skull was fractured, & I was arrested more than 40 times so each & every one of us can register to vote. Do your part." ~ John Robert Lewis
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A group of civil rights demonstrators march from Selma to Montgomery, 1965 Photo credit: Bruce Davidson
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"This picture is 55 years old," 1965
A spectator at the Selma to Montgomery march with a sign condemning police killings presages the grievances of today’s Black Lives Matter movement, 1965. Photo credit: Steve Schapiro
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The march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965 Photo credit: Bruce Davidson / Magnum Photos — in Selma, Alabama.
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"50,000 March on Montgomery," May 1965 In this Ebony cover, The Rev. Ralph Abernathy, Ralph Bunche, Martin Luther King Jr., Mrs. King and Rosa Parks on the first of a five--day march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, March 21, 1965.
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The Rev. Ralph David Abernathy follows the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King as the Abernathy children march on the front line, leading the Selma to Montgomery march in 1965. The children are Donzaleigh Abernathy in striped sweater, Ralph David Abernathy III and Juandalynn R. Abernathy in glasses. The name of the white minister in the photo is unknown. Photo credit: Abernathy Family
"Selma: Beatings Start the Savage Season," March 1965. Photo credit: LIFE magazine — in Selma, Alabama.
Selma: Beatings Start the Savage Season
"Selma: Beatings Start the Savage Season," March 1965. Photo credit: LIFE magazine — in Selma, Alabama.
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Clergy members singing in 1965 at a police barrier in Selma, Alabama that became known as the Berlin Wall. Photo credit: Dan Budnik / Contact Press Images — in Selma, Alabama.
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Hecklers insult two black women who are part of a voting rights drive in Selma, 1965. Photo credit: Bob Adelman / Magnum Photos — in Selma, Alabama.