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King asked them to remain in Selma for another march to take place after the injunction was lifted. [citation needed] That evening, three white Unitarian Universalist ministers in Selma for the march were attacked on the street and beaten with clubs by four KKK members. [68] The worst injured was Reverend James Reeb from Boston. Fearing that ...
In March 2005, a re-enactment of the march took place to commemorate its 40th anniversary. [5] This anniversary led to the creation of a pedestrian walk around Selma. [6] In 2015 the Marion to Selma Connecting Trail was designated to connect the Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail with the site of Jimmie Lee Jackson's murder. [7]
That night, a white group beat and murdered civil rights activist James Reeb, a Unitarian Universalist minister from Boston, who had come to Selma for the second march. [13] Many other clergy and sympathizers from across the country had also gathered for the second march. [14] On March 16, Liuzzo took part in a protest at Wayne State.
Map of the Selma to Montgomery marches route showing campsite locations Participants in the Selma to Montgomery march on March 21–25, 1965, utilized four campsites along the route. The march followed a 54-mile (87 km) route along U.S. Highway 80 from Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church in Selma through Lowndes County to the State Capitol in Montgomery .
NAACP leaders launched a 40-day march across the U.S. South on Saturday with a rally in Selma, Alabama, drawing on that city's significance in the 1960s civil rights movement to call attention to ...
March 7, 1965: Civil rights marchers beaten by police while trying to march from Selma to Montgomery March 9, 1965: Second march to Montgomery begins March 18, 1965: Alexei Leonov becomes the first person to "walk in space" March 23, 1965: John Young and Gus Grissom before being launched on the first two-astronaut mission
Those include the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, that killed four girls two weeks after the march; the murders of three civil rights workers in Neshoba County ...
Crowds watched solemnly as the body of Rep. John Lewis crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge one final time, 55 years after the civil rights icon marched for peace and was met with brutality in Selma ...