Modern Era · North America · Politics

1965

Selma to Montgomery march

March 7, 1965

On Bloody Sunday, Alabama state troopers attacked civil rights marchers with clubs and tear gas as they tried to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Television carried the pictures. Within five months Lyndon Johnson had signed the Voting Rights Act. The South's last weapons against Black political power were being pried away.

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Before and after in North America

Before: 1964: Beatles hit America
After: October 15, 1966: Black Panthers founded

Before and after in Politics

Before: 1964: Mandela sent to Robben Island
After: May 16, 1966: Cultural Revolution launched

Era

Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.

Sources

Wikipedia: Selma to Montgomery marches