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Freedom Day
This was one of the two days per month that citizens were allowed to go to the courthouse to apply to register to vote. SNCC and the DCVL gathered over 300 Dallas County blacks to line up at the voter registration office. -
Civil Rights Act
President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law, which declared segregation illegal, yet Jim Crow remained in effect. When they tried putting these laws in effect blacks who tried to attend the movie theater and eat at the hamburger stand were beaten and arrested. -
Nobel Peace Prize
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. recieved the Nobel Peace Price and was then the youngest man to recive this award. -
Selma Campaign
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference begin a campaign in Selma, Alabama, where many African Americans couldnot register to vote. King starts the Selma campaign with a gathering at Brown Chapel. This is the day when the Selma Marches officially began. -
Lydon B. Johnson
Presiden Lyndon B. Johnson listes voting rights for all the citizens in the United States making it clear that is was a priority of his adminsitration. -
Bloody Sunday
an estimated 525 to 600 civil rights marchers headed east out of Selma on U.S. Highway 80. The march was led by John Lewis of SNCC and the Reverend Hosea Williams of SCLC. The protest was going fine until the marchers crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge and found a wall of state troopers waiting for them on the other side. Many were knocked to the ground and beaten with nightsticks. Another detachment of troopers fired tear gas. Mounted troopers charged the crowd on horseback. -
Turn Around Tuesday
King led about 2,500 marchers out to the Edmund Pettus Bridge and held a short prayer session before turning the marchers back around, thereby obeying the court order preventing them from marching all the way to Montgomery. -
Voting Rights Bill
President Johnson addresses a session of Congress to introduce the Voting Rights Bill. -
Third March
With the National Guard protecting them, 3,200 marchers leave Selma for Montgomery. -
Voting Rights Act
President Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act into law
