<aside> 🔥 Peaceful Demonstration on March 7th 1965 to protest the killing of a young African American church deacon by a State trooper and continue the fight for voting rights.

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The Selma Establishment had known to be the most egregious in barring blacks from the polls

→ the SNCC had been on a campaign to register black voters in the country seat of Selma

→ this demonstration ended up with terrible violence and terror.

• 600 activist march from Selma to Montgomery and get
• Outline of events.

Significance of the event

• over 600 marchers confronted State troopers and were brutally attacked. graphic footage from this horrific event was reported across America and showed that more change needed to occur following the civil right act of 64,

in that way...

• Catalysed the Civil voting rights act of 1965