Today is the anniversary of ‘Bloody Sunday’. On this day in 1965, Civil rights marchers began their march from Selma to Montgomery in Alabama to advocate for African-Americans to be able to exercise their constitutional right to vote. The march was ended by state troopers and county possemen, who charged on about 600 unarmed protesters with batons and tear gas after they crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in the direction of Montgomery.
Law enforcement beat one of the leaders, Amelia Boynton unconscious, and the media publicized worldwide a picture of her lying wounded on the bridge. The second march took place two days later but King cut it short as a federal court issued a temporary injunction against further marches. That night, an anti-civil rights group murdered civil rights activist James Reeb, a Unitarian Universalist minister from Boston.
The violence of “Bloody Sunday” and Reeb’s murder resulted in a national outcry, and the marches were widely discussed in national and international news media. The protesters campaigned for a new federal voting rights law to enable African Americans to register and vote without harassment. President Lyndon B. Johnson seized the opportunity and held a historic, nationally televised joint session of Congress on March 15, asking lawmakers to pass what is now known as the Voting Rights Act of 1965. It was passed and he signed it on August 6, removing obstacles for Blacks to register.
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