THIS IS SLEMA, ALABAMA. THERE ARE MORE NEGROES IN JAIL WITH ME THAN THERE ARE ON THE VOTING ROLLS.” King was in jail for less than a month, but as soon as he was out he was marching again.
One very memorable event was on a Sunday, which is remembered as Blood Sunday. A peaceful march was planned to go from Selma to the state capital at Montgomery, a 54 mile march. The march was planned to petition Governor George Wallace to end the police brutality and allow African-Americans to vote. 500 people started out the march from Brown Chapel Church, but they hadn’t gone far at all before they were stopped by highway patrol men, who started hitting the marchers on sight with billy clubs, bull whips, and rubber tubing wrapped in barbed wire. People that tried to hide in the church were bombarded by the force, some were even thrown through windows. 70 marchers were hospitalized, and 70 treated for injuries.
Blood Sunday that King called a clergy of all faiths to march in honors of those who had been struck down. Like Gandhi’s march to the Salt March to protest against the salt tax laws that hurt the poor, King planned a …show more content…
Johnson was watching as well, and it deeply moved him. He called for a voting-rights bill, without delay or compromise. He invited King to sit in the senate gallery during the address, but King remained in Selma to perform a funeral service for James Reeb, a man that had been clubbed to death. Immediately after the address had been given, the courts approved of the Selma-Montgomery march during which only 300 of the 3,500 that had gathered were allowed to march. A few months after the famous march the US Congress passed the Voting Rights Act, and on August 6th, 1965, President Lindon B. Johnson signed it. As more African Americans were able to vote, more Negroes were elected to public offices, and more whites running for office paid attention to the needs of the black
One very memorable event was on a Sunday, which is remembered as Blood Sunday. A peaceful march was planned to go from Selma to the state capital at Montgomery, a 54 mile march. The march was planned to petition Governor George Wallace to end the police brutality and allow African-Americans to vote. 500 people started out the march from Brown Chapel Church, but they hadn’t gone far at all before they were stopped by highway patrol men, who started hitting the marchers on sight with billy clubs, bull whips, and rubber tubing wrapped in barbed wire. People that tried to hide in the church were bombarded by the force, some were even thrown through windows. 70 marchers were hospitalized, and 70 treated for injuries.
Blood Sunday that King called a clergy of all faiths to march in honors of those who had been struck down. Like Gandhi’s march to the Salt March to protest against the salt tax laws that hurt the poor, King planned a …show more content…
Johnson was watching as well, and it deeply moved him. He called for a voting-rights bill, without delay or compromise. He invited King to sit in the senate gallery during the address, but King remained in Selma to perform a funeral service for James Reeb, a man that had been clubbed to death. Immediately after the address had been given, the courts approved of the Selma-Montgomery march during which only 300 of the 3,500 that had gathered were allowed to march. A few months after the famous march the US Congress passed the Voting Rights Act, and on August 6th, 1965, President Lindon B. Johnson signed it. As more African Americans were able to vote, more Negroes were elected to public offices, and more whites running for office paid attention to the needs of the black