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Boston Herald - March 11, 1965 - Selma March Coverage
Boston Herald - March 22, 1965 - Selma March Coverage
Boston Globe coverage on the civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery in March of 1965. The 54-mile march occurred in an effort to register black voters in the South. Sunday, March 7th, 1965 Martin Luther King Jr along with 600 other protestors attempted the march for the first time. This day would come to be known as “Bloody Sunday” as state troopers used excessive force to turn them back to Selma. On March 9th, 2,000 marchers met King to try again. This time protesters found their route blocked by state troopers. Even through troopers eventually made way for them King decided to turn the protesters back, believing that the troopers were planning something. Finally, on March 21st, 2,000 protesters set out again from Selma, this time with the protection of U.S. Army troops and Alabama National Guard forces ordered by president Lyndon B. Johnson. Congress passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that August.
Sources: https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/selma-montgomery-march and https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/selma-montgomery-march and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Herald#The_original_Boston_Herald and https://www.bostonherald.com/2012/01/28/the-boston-herald-a-company-history/
Sources: https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/selma-montgomery-march and https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/selma-montgomery-march and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Herald#The_original_Boston_Herald and https://www.bostonherald.com/2012/01/28/the-boston-herald-a-company-history/