Selma-to-Montgomery Marches 1965

Event Details

Time: March 7, 2065 to March 25, 2065
Location: stopping at the Edmund Pettus Bride
City/Town: Selma Alabama
Website or Map: http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/…
Event Type: protest, march
Organized By: Civil Rights Activists
Latest Activity: Jun 7, 2010

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Event Description

On "Bloody Sunday," March 7, 1965, some 600 civil rights marchers headed east out of Selma on U.S. Route 80. They got only as far as the Edmund Pettus Bridge six blocks away, where state and local lawmen attacked them with billy clubs and tear gas and drove them back into Selma. Two days later on March 9, Martin Luther King, Jr., led a "symbolic" march to the bridge. Then civil rights leaders sought court protection for a third, full-scale march from Selma to the state capitol in Montgomery.