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bloody sunday
600 marchers went from Brown Chapel AME and tried to cross the Edmund pettus Bridge, headung west out of Selma to Montgomery got as far as Edmund pettus Bridge six blocks away,where state and local law enforcement attacked them with billy clubs and tears gas drove them back to Selma -
turnaround tuesday
King lead a second march for voting rights from selmaas the marchers begin near the Edmund brigde where they run into state poilce officers but instead of starting a fight with them the marchers knell and pray and then lesve the brigde -
Johnson meets with congress
President of the United States Lyndon Johnson meets with Congress to support voting rights bill -
March Madness
the march begins, 600 marchers began the march -
the march is over
Martin Luther King lead thousands of marchers from slema to Montgomery to demonstrate african american voters -
Voting Rights Act Passed
the bill aimed to finish the state and local segration prevented by African Americans this act also prohibited refusal of voting for african americans because of race, color, or been a slave -
signing the bill
potus Johnson signs the voting bill act is signed
