Background Info
These laws imposed racial segregation and denied African Americans fundamental rights, including voting
What are Jim Crow Laws?
This leader of the SCLC helped organize the protest and brought national attention to it.
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr?
Law enforcement used three violent tactics against the peaceful marchers.
What are clubs, tear gas, and chasing?
The date of when the Selma March occurs.
When is March 21st, 1965?
The name of the violent event that was against protesters and shocked that nation
What is "Bloody Sunday"?
This tactic was used to prevent Black citizens from voting by requiring their ancestors to have voted before them
What is the grandfather clause?
This civil rights leader, the chairman of SNCC was severely beaten during the march.
Who is John Lewis?
The first attempt of the march that ended with blood and trauma, happened on this day.
When is March 7th, 1965?
The final destination of the Selma March.
What is Montgomery, Alabama?
This managed to pressurize the American government and draw attention of these events occurring to the American public.
What is media coverage and television broadcasting?
Despite being unconstitutional under the 15th Amendment, these unfair exams were used to disenfranchise black voters
What are literacy tests?
The 36th president, was a key component to the civil rights movement. Met with MLK discussing the Civil and the Voting Rights Act.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
Marchers were stopped and attacked by state troopers at this bridge.
What is the Edmund Pettus Bridge?
Sent by the president, with the duty to protect the marchers during their demonstration.
What is the National Guard of the United States?
The main aim of the Selma Campaign.
What is to achieve racial equality in voting?
This amendment passed in 1870, granted Black men the right to vote
What is the 15th Amendment?
Shot by an Alabama state Trooper, his death became a catalyst for the Selma marches.
Who is Jimmie Lee Jackson?
The marchers attempted to retreat to this church after being attacked
What is Browns Chapel Church?
Two notable figures presented at the conlucion of the march
Who were Rosa Parks and Jim Letherer?
It called for abolishing literacy tests and established federal oversight of poll taxes + elections.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
The term to remove rights from an individual or group, usually the right to vote. It was the main form of discrimination against African Americans, this included literacy tests, poll taxes, and intimidation like lynching.
What is Disenfranchisement?
This Alabama governor ordered the use of state troopers to violently suppress the marchers.
Who is George Wallace?
This civil rights leader that marched alongside John Lewis on Bloody Sunday.
Who is Hosea Williams?
The speech Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered at the end of the march
What is "How Long, Not Long"?
Effects the Selma Campaign had on the Civil Rights Movement.
What is It demonstrated how direct action and public pressure can assure in achieving significant social and political change (an act and ban on disenfranchisement)?