Selma’s Bloody Sunday: Protest, Voting Rights, and the Struggle for Racial Equality (Witness to History)

The march from Selma to Montgomery starkly illustrated the claims of the civil rights movement―and the raw brutality of the forces arrayed against it.On Sunday afternoon, March 7, 1965, roughly six hundred peaceful demonstrators set out from Brown Chapel A.M.E.

Church in a double-file column to march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital of Montgomery.

Leading the march were Hosea Williams of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and John Lewis of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.