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Student Nonviloent Coordnating Committee
Representivates of the student Nonviloent Coordnating Committee come to selma and begin protesting. -
Freedom Day
It would be known as freedom day. About 350 blacks line up to register to vote at the Dallas County Courthouse. Registars go as slowly as possiable and take a two hour lunch break. Very few manage to register, many are declined. The protest is considered a huge victory by civil rights advocates. -
Dallas County Circuit
Dallas County Circuit court judge james hare issuses and injunction effectily forbidding gatherings of three or more people to disscuss civil rights or voter registration in Selma Alabama. -
Men found dead
James E. Chaney, 21; Andrew Goodman, 21; and Michael Schwerner, 24, found dead in a dam killed by the Ku Klux Klan. These men were trying to get blacks to vote. -
The project for a Alambama Polticial Freedom Movement
Dr. Martian Luther King Jr. presents the SCLC plan. The project for a Alambama Polticial Freedom Movement, a plan convinced by James Bevel that calls for mass action and voter registation attemps in Selma and Dallas County. -
Race riots
Race riots/ groups erupt in a black section of Los Angeles. -
700 African Americans
King begins his Selma campaign when about 700 African Americans show up for a meeting at Brown Chapel in defiance of the injunction. -
Black civil rights advocates meet at Brown Chapel.
Black civil rights advocates meet at Brown Chapel. Following speeches and prayers, King and John Lewis lead 300 marchers out of the church. Selma Police Chief Wilson Baker allows them to march in small groups to the courthouse to register despite Hare's injunction. Sheriff Jim Clark has them line up in an alley beside the courthouse, where they are out of sight, and leaves them there. -
Protesters return
Protesters return to courthouse to register and demand to remain at the front of the building. Clark arrests them, including Hosea Williams of the SCLC, Lewis of the SNCC and Amelia Boynton. -
Black Teachers
Since local teachers can be fired, few have taken overt roles in the civil rights movement, but Margaret Moore and the Rev. F.D. Reese, who is also a teacher at Hudson High, organize the teachers' march. Almost every black teacher in Selma (110 of them) marches to register to vote. Clark and his deputies push them down the courthouse stairs three times, but they are not arrested. -
Dr. Martian Luther King Jr. leads another march
King leads another march of about 250 people to the courthouse. When Clark painfully twists the arm of Annie Lee Cooper, 54, and shoves her, she slugs him. -
Dr. Martain Luther King Jr. and Ralph Abernathy Led a protest
King and Ralph Abernathy lead a protest and refuse to break into smaller groups. Both are arrested and placed in the Selma jail, and refuse to be bonded out by citizens. -
Selma to Montgomery March
around 600 marchers walk to Selma, Alabama to Montgomery. The local police brutally attack them. They only got six blocks away before the police started to attack them. The youngest marcher was eight years old. -
President Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act
President Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act to prevent the use of literacy tests as a voting requirement. -
Dr. Martian Luther King Jr. was assinated
Dr. Martian Luther King Jr. was assinated on the back of his house in Tennesse -
President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act
President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act providing equalness regardless of the race or religon
