U.S. Representative John Lewis, Selma, Alabama March Story

in Selma, Alabama in 1965, less than 350 were registered to vote. Jim Clark, the sheriff, did not shy away from using violence to control African Americans in Selma. Knowing that Clarks response to civil rights protests would brutal, Martin Luther King helped organize a protest in Selma. After the shooting of a black teenager in the nearby town of Marion, members of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference announced a march from Selma to the state capital, Montgomery, a distance of ...
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