Selma-Montgomery March
Background:
To protest local resistance to black voter registration in Dallas County, Alabama, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) organized a mass march from Selma to Montgomery on March 7, 1965. Under the leadership of John Lewis of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the SCLC's Hosea Williams, a column of five hundred to six hundred demonstrators marched without incident through the streets of Selma until reaching the Edmund Pettus Bridge where they were brutally attacked by state troopers and mounted patrolmen. Television cameramen captured the incident on film, and "Bloody Sunday," as it came to be known, helped marshal nationwide support for the passage of voting rights legislation. Undeterred by the threat of violence, Martin Luther King Jr. led more than three thousand marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge only two weeks later. From there, King's column made the 54-mile trek to the state capital under the watchful protection of the recently federalized Alabama National Guard, arriving in Montgomery four days later.
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Archival Collections and Reference Resources
- African-American Life in Memphis, Tenn. (Memphis Public Library's Memphis and Shelby County Room)
- Baldy Editorial Cartoons, 1946-1982, 1997: Clifford H. Baldowski Editorial Cartoons at the Richard B. Russell Library. (Digital Library of Georgia)
- Encyclopedia of Alabama (Encyclopedia of Alabama)
- James Karales : 1956-1969 (Duke University's Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library)
- Nelson Malden Civil Rights Era Photograph Collection (Alabama Department of Archives and History)
- African American policeman directing marchers in Montgomery during the Selma to Montgomery March (Black-and-white photographs)
- Marchers crossing the street in Montgomery during the Selma to Montgomery March (Black-and-white photographs)
- Marchers in Montgomery during the Selma to Montgomery March (Black-and-white photographs)
- Marchers walking in the rain in Montgomery during the Selma to Montgomery March (Black-and-white photographs)
- Marchers walking in the rain in Montgomery during the Selma to Montgomery March (Black-and-white photographs)
- Marchers walking in the rain in Montgomery during the Selma to Montgomery March (Black-and-white photographs)
- Marchers walking in the rain in Montgomery during the Selma to Montgomery March (Black-and-white photographs)
- Two Montgomery policemen standing in the street during the Selma to Montgomery March. (Black-and-white photographs)
- Powerful Days in Black and White (Eastman Kodak Company)
- Presidential Timeline of the Twentieth Century (Lyndon Baines Johnson Library)
- Jack Valenti's handwritten notes taken during a meeting between President Lyndon B. Johnson, Congressional leaders, and the attorney general (Notes)
- Memorandum from Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey to President Lyndon B. Johnson (Memorandums)
- The President’s reading copy of the special message to the Congress: “The American promise” (Speeches)
- Remarks in the Capitol Rotunda at the Signing of the Voting Rights Act, August 6, 1965 (Speeches)
- Special message to the Congress: “The American promise” (Sound recordings)
- Special message to the Congress: The American promise (Speeches)
- Telephone conversation from Lyndon B. Johnson to Bill Moyers on March 9, 1965 at 7:33 a.m. (Sound recordings)
- Transcript of Jack Valenti’s handwritten notes taken during a meeting between President Lyndon B. Johnson, Congressional Leaders, and the Attorney General. (Transcripts)
- Transcript of memorandum from Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey to President Lyndon B. Johnson (Transcripts)
- Transcript of special message to the Congress: “The American promise” (Transcripts)
- Transcript of telephone conversation from Lyndon B. Johnson to Bill Moyers on March 9, 1965 at 7:33 a.m. (Sound recordings)
- Transcript of the President’s reading copy of the special message to the Congress: “The American promise” (Speeches)
- Selma to Montgomery : A March for the Right to Vote : A Visual History by Spider Martin (Spider Martin Photograph Collection)
- African American children with an American flag, probably during the Selma to Montgomery March. (Color photographs)
- African American students and teachers at the Loveless School in Montgomery, looking at the Selma to Montgomery March from the steps and out of the second-story windows. (Color photographs)
- African American women, children, and an older man waving to Selma to Montgomery marchers from the sidewalk. (Color photographs)
- Looking up Dexter Avenue in as Selma to Montgomery marchers round the corner and head to the Capitol. (Color photographs)
- National Guardsmen on the corner of Dexter Avenue and Hull Street in front of the Capitol during the Selma to Montgomery March. (Color photographs)
- Selma to Montgomery marchers congregating. (Color photographs)
- Selma to Montgomery marchers congregating. (Color photographs)
- Selma to Montgomery marchers in front of the Capitol. (Color photographs)
- Selma to Montgomery marchers in front of the Capitol at 1:25 p.m. (Color photographs)
- Selma to Montgomery marchers in Montgomery. (Color photographs)
- Series 2515 : Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission Records Online, 1994-2006, Photographs (Mississippi Department of Archives and History)
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph [Image of Selma marchers] (Color photographs)
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph [Image of Selma marchers]
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph [Image of Selma marchers]
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph [Image of Selma marchers] (Black-and-white photographs)
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph [Image of Selma marchers] (Color photographs)
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph [Image of Selma marchers] (Color photographs)
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph [Image of Selma marchers] (Color photographs)
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph [Image of Selma marchers] (Color photographs)
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph [Image of Selma marchers] (Color photographs)
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph [Image of Selma marchers] (Color photographs)
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph [Image of Selma marchers] (Color photographs)
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph [Image of Selma marchers] (Color photographs)
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph [Image of Selma marchers] (Color photographs)
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph [Image of Selma marchers] (Color photographs)
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph [Image of Selma marchers] (Black-and-white photographs)
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph [Image of Selma marchers] (Color photographs)
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph [Image of Selma marchers] (Black-and-white photographs)
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph [Image of Selma marchers] (Color photographs)
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph [Image of Selma marchers] (Color photographs)
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph [Image of Selma marchers] (Black-and-white photographs)
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph [Image of Selma marchers]
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph [Image of Selma marchers] (Color photographs)
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph [Image of Selma marchers] (Color photographs)
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph [Image of Selma marchers] (Color photographs)
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph [Image of Selma marchers] (Color photographs)
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph [Image of Selma marchers] (Black-and-white photographs)
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph [Image of Selma marchers] (Color photographs)
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph [Image of Selma marchers] (Color photographs)
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph [Image of Selma marchers] (Color photographs)
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph [Selma marchers holding flags] (Black-and-white photographs)
- Voices of Freedom: The Virginia Civil Rights Movement (Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries)
- Aerial view of marchers crossing bridge during the march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965 (Black-and-white photographs)
- A pair of muddy shoes underscore the weariness following the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama; state capitol in background (Black-and-white photographs)
- Participants, some carrying American flags, marching in the civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965 (Black-and-white photographs)
- WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection (Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection)