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V.RC starts
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 -
jail
By February 5, more than 2,400 demonstrators had been jailed. -
demostrations
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. -
decline
February 15, demonstrations in Selma dwindled in size, -
death in the air
Demostrators and police culminated on the night of February 18 in a bloody riot initiated by state troopers and local police -
black death
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