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Did MLK cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge?

Did MLK cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge?

Forced to consider whether to disobey the pending court order, after consulting late into the night and early morning with other civil rights leaders and John Doar, the deputy chief of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, King proceeded to the Edmund Pettus Bridge on the afternoon of 9 March.

What happened on the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7 1965?

On March 7, 1965, when then-25-year-old activist John Lewis led over 600 marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama and faced brutal attacks by oncoming state troopers, footage of the violence collectively shocked the nation and galvanized the fight against racial injustice.

What happened on the bridge that resulted in the day being known as Bloody Sunday?

On March 7, 1965 around 600 people crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in an attempt to begin the Selma to Montgomery march. State troopers violently attacked the peaceful demonstrators in an attempt to stop the march for voting rights.

What does the Edmund Pettus Bridge symbolize?

What happened on the Edmund Pettus Bridge is history because it initiated the Selma-to-Montgomery March and helped forge the 1965 Voting Rights Act. It inspired freedom struggles all over the world. The Bridge became a worldwide symbol of Freedom. As a result, people come from all over the world to see it.

Who died at Selma?

Jimmie Lee Jackson
Jackson died eight days later in the hospital. His death helped inspire the Selma to Montgomery marches in March 1965, a major event in the civil rights movement that helped gain congressional passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965….Murder of Jimmie Lee Jackson.

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How long was the walk from Selma to Montgomery?

54-mile
The 54-mile-long national historic trail begins at the Brown Chapel African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church in Selma and then follows the 1965 historic routes of the Selma to Montgomery voting rights marches through the city and eastward along US Highway 80 through Dallas County and Lowndes County.

Does the Edmund Pettus Bridge still exist?

The Edmund Pettus Bridge, now a National Historic Landmark, was the site of the brutal Bloody Sunday beatings of civil rights marchers during the first march for voting rights.

What happened at the Edmund Pettus Bridge?

The Edmund Pettus Bridge, now a National Historic Landmark, was the site of the brutal Bloody Sunday beatings of civil rights marchers during the first march for voting rights. After Bloody Sunday, protestors were granted the right to continue marching, and two more marches for voting rights followed.

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