The Selma Voting Rights Campaign officially started on January 2, 1965, when King addressed a mass meeting in Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church in defiance of the anti-meeting injunction. The date had been chosen because Sheriff Clark was out of town, and Chief Baker had stated he would not enforce the injunction
The Ruiz v. Estelle case was a class-action suit on behalf of inmates. It started in 1972 and it focused on issues regarding overcrow<span>ding in jails, abusive security practices, and inaccessibility of health care. The inmate </span><span>David Resendez Ruíz raised these issues regarding the prison system he experienced. He emphasized that these conditions were a violation of his constitutional rights. </span>
It would be "Whether a new state or territory should enter the Union as Free or Slave" that had the most impact on the Civil War, since the North was strongly against the spread of slavery, while the South was in favor of it.
A speech you give in front of your class
