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Montgomery, AL – Sixty years ago this month Dr. Martin Luther King led the march that changed history.
The last leg of the march led by Dr. King ended at the Alabama State Capitol. At that time, there were very few Black citizens registered to vote in Alabama. The Selma marches led directly to the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Black Americans were guaranteed the right to vote in 1868 with the enactment of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Yet it took nearly a century and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 for this right to be secured.
Sixty years ago on March 7,1965, the three Selma marches started with Bloody Sunday, when Alabama State Troopers and other law enforcement officers violently prevented peaceful marchers from crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge to make their journey to Montgomery.
