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King launches the Selma campaign with a rally at brown chapel
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Rally at courthouse
105 black school teachers defy the superintendednt and rally at the Dallas County Courthouse in Selma. -
King and 500 schoolchildren arrested
King and 500 schoolchildren are arrested in Selma; 650 African Americans march in nearby Marion. Unitarian Universalist ministers Ira Blalock and Gordon Gibson arrive in Selma to work with the SCLC. The Rev. Dr. Dana McLean Greeley, president of the Unitarian Universalist Association, sends a telegram to King in jail, praising him as a “model of discipline and non-violence.” Greeley urges Johnson and Congress to guarantee voting rights to all citizens. -
Sheriff sends 165 black teens on a forced run out of town, pursued by patrol cars.
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A night in Marion ends with a brutal attack.
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Bloody Sunday
The march from Selma to Montgomery begins, but state troopers and a sheriff’s posse stop the marchers with clubs and tear gas on the far side of the Edmund Pettus Bridge. TV news footage of “Bloody Sunday” interrupts a program about Nazi atrocities. King calls religious leaders to join him in Selma. -
Jackson dies. The SCLC announces a protest march to montgomery at his memorial service.
