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Montgomery To Selma March
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Selma Start When then SNCC travel to selma to start protest
1962 - 1 week
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Representatives of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee travel to Selma and start staging protest
Freedom Day 350 blacks line up the vote at the Dallas County Courthouse
Oct. 7, 1963 - 1 day
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About 350 blacks line up to register to vote at the Dallas County Courthouse.
The SCLC plan calls for mass action and voter registration
Dec. 28, 1964 - 1 day
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. presents the SCLC plan, the "Project for an Alabama Political Freedom Movement,
Dr.Kings begins the Selma campaign with the Brown chapel meeting in defiance of the injunction
Jan. 18, 1965 - 1 day
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Black civil rights advocates meet at Brown Chapel. Following speeches and prayers, King and John Lewis lead 300 marchers out of the church.
March To the Courthouse Annie Lee Cooper is assaulted which results in her hitting a police twice
Jan. 25, 1965 - 1 day
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King leads another march of about 250 people to the courthouse.
26 year old deacon is shot durring the march to Marion
Feb. 18, 1965 - 1 day
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State troopers attack marchers during a protest in Marion. State trooper James Bonard Fowler shoots and kills Jimmie Lee Jackson, a 26-year-old deacon of the St. James Baptist Church
Announcement of the Selma march when Dr.King speaks to President Johnson
March 5, 1965 - 1 day
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King flies to Washington to speak with President Johnson about the Voting Rights Bill. Then announces the plan for a massive march from Selma to Montgomery.
Concerned White Citizens of Alabama march in support of of black rights
March 6, 1965 - 1 day
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Alabama whites, calling themselves the Concerned White Citizens of Alabama, come to Selma to march in support of black rights
Selma march where protesters are met by state troops and are attacked when they refused to disperse
March 7, 1965 - 1 day
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John Lewis and Hosea Williams lead about 600 people on what is intended to be a march from Selma to Montgomery. But Alabama state troopers, some on horseback, and Clark and his deputies
Turnaround Tuesday a march led by Dr.KIng to the Edmund Pettus Bridge
March 9, 1965 - 1 day
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Martin Luther King Jr. leads another march to the Edmund Pettus Bridge. About 2,000 people, more than half of them white and about a third members of the clergy, participate in the second march.