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highway from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital of Montgomery. The marches were organized by nonviolent activists to demonstrate the desire of African-American citizens to exercise their constitutional right to vote, in defiance of segregationist repression; they were part of a broader voting rights movement underway in Selma and throughout the American South. By highlighting racial injustice, they contributed to passage that year of the Voting Rights Act, a landmark federal achievement of the civil rights movement.
Southern state legislatures had passed and maintained a series of discriminatory requirements and practices that had disenfranchised most of the millions of African Americans across the South throughout the 20th century. The African-American group known as the Dallas County Voters League (DCVL) launched a voter registration campaign in Selma in 1963. Joined by organizers from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), they began working that year in a renewed effort to register black voters.
Finding resistance by white officials to be intractable, even after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ended legal segregation, the DCVL invited Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and the activists of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) to join them. SCLC brought many prominent civil rights and civic leaders to Selma in January 1965. Local and regional protests began, with 3,000 people arrested by the end of February. According to Joseph A. Califano Jr., who served as head of domestic affairs for U.S. President Lyndon Johnson between the years 1965 and 1969, the President viewed King as an essential partner in getting the Voting Rights Act enacted.[3] Califano, whom the President also assigned to monitor the final march to Montgomery,[4] said that Johnson and King talked by telephone on January 15 to plan a strategy for drawing attention to the injustice of using literacy tests and other barriers to stop black Southerners from voting, and that King later informed the President on February 9 of his decision to use Selma to achieve this objec
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The map provides information about the Battle of Normandy, most commonly called D-Day, during World War II.
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The Allied invasion of Normandy took place on June 6, 1944. It led to the establishment of the second front in western Europe against the German Reich. The landing, mainly with the help of ships and massive air support, took place mainly on the French coast of the English Channel east of Cherbourg in Normandy.
Troops from the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Poland, France, New Zealand and other countries took part in the fighting.
The Battle of Normandy continued for more than 2 months, with several campaigns to settle definitively in France, ending with the closing of the Falaise bag, the subsequent liberation of Paris on August 25, 1944, and the German withdrawal through the Seine, which was completed on 30 August 1944.
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Joseph Stalin's faith was Christian growing up, but as an adult, he began to take on Marxism and communism as his main belief systems. At one point, Stalin claimed to be an atheist and studied the works of Charles Darwin. Other authors that shaped his belief system were Engels and Lenin.
