Question

One event that outraged many Americans occurred on March 7, 1965, when peaceful participants in a Selma to Montgomery march for voting rights were met by Alabama state troopers who attacked them with nightsticks, tear gas and whips after they refused to turn back?

Answer 1

Bloody Sunday.

Explanation:

• The Montgomery march, three marches from Selma to Montgomery in 1965, led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act, a significant success of the African American Civil Rights Movement. All three protest marches were attempts to walk along the 54-mile long highway from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
• The Voting Rights Movement in Selma was started by local African-Americans, who formed the Dallas County Voter Association. Together with the organizers of the Student Nonviolent Organizing Committee, they began registering black voters since 1964. When the resistance of whites turned out to be persistent, the Alliance addressed Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which brought many prominent figures to Selma in January 1965. leaders of the civil rights movement.
• The following month, Jimmy Lee Jackson, a suffrage activist, was fatally shot during a march in Marion, which inflated community tensions. To quell and direct anger, James Bevel Student Committee director, who campaigned in Selma and worked on his Alabama voting rights project since late 1964, called for a dramatic march from Selma to Montgomery.
• The first march occurred on March 7, 1965; it was nicknamed Bloody Sunday after 600 protesters attacked state and local police with batons and tear gas. The second march occurred on March 9; police and protesters stood in front of each other, but when police moved to let the protesters pass, King brought them back to the church.
• The third march began on March 21st. With the protection of 2,000 U.S. Army members, 1,900 Alabama National Guard members under federal commander and numerous FBI agents and federal marshals, protesters traveled 16 miles a day along U.S. Route 80, known in Alabama as Jefferson Davis Highway. Protesters arrived in Montgomery on March 24, and before the Alabama State Capitol on March 25.

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