- Collection:
- Alabama History Education Materials
- Title:
- Civil Rights Lesson 4 Marching for Justice Selma to Montgomery
- Date of Original:
- 1990/2022
- Subject:
- Civil rights
- Location:
- United States, Alabama, 32.75041, -86.75026
- Medium:
- lesson plans
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Despite a succession of federal court rulings designed to open the polls to African Americans in the 1960's, black Alabamians in huge numbers were not registered to vote due to the power of local voter registrars to erect obstacles. The problem was particularly acute in the Black Belt of the state, where whites feared losing political control when the black majority population gained the franchise. Selma, in the heart of the Black Belt, became a focus for black registration drives in the early 1960's and, in 1965, was chosen by African American Civil Rights leaders as the site from which to launch a march on Montgomery, the state capital, to dramatize the plight of the disfranchised.
- Metadata URL:
- http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/cdm/ref/collection/lessons/id/40
- IIIF manifest:
- http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/iiif/2/lessons:40/manifest.json
- Contributing Institution:
- Alabama. Department of Archives and History
- Rights:
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