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Begining the Selma campaign
King begins his Selma campaign when about 700 African Americans show up for a meeting at Brown Chapel in defiance of the injunction -
Bloody Sunday
John Lewis and Hosea Williams led about 600 marchers to march from Selma to Montgomery. But the Alabama State Troopers met them at the Edmund bridge and driven back to Selma while being beaten and having tear gas thrown at them. -
Turnaround Tuesday
On march 9 1965 Dr Martin Luther King Jr. led another march to the Edmund bridge. About 2000 people white,black and some of them from the clergy participated. When they get the the bridge King tells them to disperse. That march was ''Turnaround Tuesday''. -
''We Shall Overcome''
President Johnson addresses congress in support of a Voting Rights Bill quoting the civil rights famous cry ''We Shall Overcome''. -
Escorting the march from Selma
President Johnson sends about 1000 military and 2000 Army troops to escort the march from Selma -
The killing of Viola Liuzzo
On March 25 1965 Viola Liuzzo was killed by the Ku Klux Klan on the way to Montgomery to pick up a car load of marchers. She was a 39 year old marcher. -
Our Voting Rights
On August 6 1965 President Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act into law.
