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On 2 January 1965 King and SCLC joined the SNCC, the Dallas County Voters League, and other local African American activists in a voting rights campaign in Selma
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By February 5, more than 2,400 demonstrators had been jailed.
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The demonstrations, which began on January 18, 1965, produced rapidly escalating tensions in Selma, culminating in mass arrests by authorities under the direction of Sheriff James G. Clark, Jr.
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February 15, demonstrations in Selma dwindled in size,
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Demostrators and police culminated on the night of February 18 in a bloody riot initiated by state troopers and local police
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Trooper J. Bonard Fowler shot black laborer Jimmy Lee Jackson in the stomach, and five other blacks and three white reporters were hospitalized with various injuries. Jackson died in a Selma hospital on February 26
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On 25 March 1965, Martin Luther King led thousands of nonviolent demonstrators to the steps of the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, after a 5-day, 54-mile march from Selma, Alabama where local African Americans, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) had been campaigning for voting rights