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History states that on Sunday, March 7, 1965, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led 600 marchers over Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge in the first attempt to march from Selma to Montgomery. The goal of the march was to address the violations of rights of Blacks and get protection for Black voters from Alabama Gov. George Wallace.
Selma, Ala., native and Harlem resident Dabney Montgomery, 85, said that he went back to his hometown in 1965 when he saw the vicious attacks on marchers when they crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge that were broadcast on TV. Montgomery said that he saw people on the broadcast he knew because he was raised four miles from the bridge. After taking leave from his job at the welfare office, he traveled back to Selma to march along with those who were subjected to dangerous conditions While marching to Montgomery.Forty-three years ago in 1965, 600 civil rights marchers headed east out of Selma, Ala., in response to a Black man being shot and dying at the hands of a state trooper during a civil rights demonstration.See the full content of this document
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Marchers Remember Bloody Sunday
Forty-three years ago in 1965, 600 civil rights marchers headed east out of Selma, Ala., in response to a Black man being shot and dying at the hands of a state troop...
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