Led by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., thousands of civil rights activists began a 54-mile march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, to demand equal voting rights for African Americans. The march followed the violent events of “Bloody Sunday” and symbolized the determination of the Civil Rights Movement. The campaign helped spur the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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