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Selma, a 2014 American film directed by Ava DuVernay, features the historic figures who developed the voting rights campaign in Selma and led the Selma to Montgomery marches. The film starred David Oyelowo as Martin Luther King Jr. , Tom Wilkinson as President Lyndon B. Johnson , Common as James Bevel , and Tim Roth as Governor George Wallace .
Tear gas fills the air as state troopers, ordered by Alabama Gov. George Wallace, break up a march at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on March 7, 1965, on what became known as Bloody ...
Calls to rename the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, in Lewis's honor grew after his death. [185] [186] On July 26, 2020, his casket, carried in a horse-drawn caisson, traveled the same route over the bridge that he walked during the Bloody Sunday march from Selma to Montgomery, [187] before his lying in state at the Alabama State Capitol in ...
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]
This year marks the 58th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday." On March seventh, 1965, a group of peaceful marchers planned to make their way from Selma, Alabama to Montgomery, Alabama to protest voting ...
The landmark voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965 didn't happen in just one day: Participants spent four nights camping along the roughly 55-mile (89-kilometer) route through ...
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. Lowndes County had earned the nickname "Bloody Lowndes" due to anti-Black violence, and was particularly symbolic for the march organizers. [1]
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 ...