March 7, 1965, has been named in history as Bloody Sunday for the tragic and important event in the Civil Rights Movement. On this Sunday in Selma, Alabama, around 525 African Americans gathered at Browns Chapel in order to march for their right to vote. They planned to march from Browns Chapel in Selma to Montgomery which is an at least a fifty mile march. The marchers were trying to go to Montgomery in order to see Governor Wallace. They wanted to tell him that they wanted the right to vote - the right to be free. However, when the marchers reached Edmund Pettus Bridge, volunteer officers of the Dallas Country sheriff's office and Alabama state troopers commanded them to stop and turn around due to the march being an unlawful assembly.
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Huey Newton was born in Monroe, Louisiana on February 17, 1942. As a kid, it became familiar to him that African Americans were excluded in the great majority of Americans that “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness” were considered as inalienable rights. He recognized all of the opportunities the whites would get that the African Americans would lack. Later in life he believed that African Americans were prisoners of war. He believed that even in their own land, they were held hostage and abused by racist police that threatened them. Newton attended Merritt College and met Bobby Seale, a classmate of his. He would soon find out that they would create a movement together.
Bobby Seale was born in Dallas, Texas on October 22, 1936. Seale moved around a lot as a kid, but settled in Oakland, California. This is where he attended high school, but he had poor grades and failed to graduate. He then joined the Air Force, but was then given a bad conduct discharge and returned home. He then finished high school and enrolled in Merritt College and met Huey
Huey Newton was born in Monroe, Louisiana on February 17, 1942. As a kid, it became familiar to him that African Americans were excluded in the great majority of Americans that “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness” were considered as inalienable rights. He recognized all of the opportunities the whites would get that the African Americans would lack. Later in life he believed that African Americans were prisoners of war. He believed that even in their own land, they were held hostage and abused by racist police that threatened them. Newton attended Merritt College and met Bobby Seale, a classmate of his. He would soon find out that they would create a movement together.
Bobby Seale was born in Dallas, Texas on October 22, 1936. Seale moved around a lot as a kid, but settled in Oakland, California. This is where he attended high school, but he had poor grades and failed to graduate. He then joined the Air Force, but was then given a bad conduct discharge and returned home. He then finished high school and enrolled in Merritt College and met Huey