PRESENTATION OUTLINE
LEADING FACTORS
*Americans right to vote was appressed.
*A.A. Rights to vote were violently appressed.
*“shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude"
Southern states intimidated, physically harmed and even murdered African-Americans who attempted to vote. Among the worst of those states was Alabama and among the worst of Alabama’s cities was Selma, where African-Americans comprised more than half the population but only 2 percent of the registered voters.
more than 500 civil rights demonstrators began a 50-mile march from Selma to the state capital, Montgomery, where they planned to protest Alabama’s blatantly unconstitutional voting rights policies.
“Bloody Sunday” would prove to be one of the most significant events in the civil rights movement, dramatically calling attention to the lack of progress in the enfranchisement of African-Americans since the Civil War. It even spurred Congress to pass the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which guaranteed everyone older than 21 the right to register and vote.
*Facts*
*The first shots were fired by the British Army at about 3:55 p.m.
*The British government and the British Army never apologized for these murders.
*None of the dead or wounded were armed. No shots were fired at the British Army.
13 people were murdered and 1 wounded "but later died because of the Bloody Sunday march". Most of the people that were murdered were 17 years of age or older.
