Selma to Montgomery marches
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The Selma to Montgomery marches were three protest marches, held in 1965, along the 54-mile (87 km) highway from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital of Montgomery. The marches were organized by nonviolent activists to demonstrate the desire of African-American citizens to exercise their constitutional right to vote, in defiance of segregationist repression; they were part of a broader voting rights movement underway in Selma and throughout the American South. By highlighting racial injustice, they contributed to passage that year of the Voting Rights Act, a landmark federal achievement of the civil rights movement.
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See also
- Bloody Tuesday (1964)
- James Karales (major photographer of the march)
- James "Spider" Martin ("Bloody Sunday" photographer)
- Padayatra
- Suffrage Hikes
- National Voting Rights Museum
- Selma
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