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	Did Martin Luther King phone Carter?
		State troopers attack and spray tear gas on protestors in Selma on March 7, 1965: "Bloody Sunday." The figure on the ground in the light colored coat is John Lewis.
		A march from Selma to Montgomery (to confront Governor George Wallace) was first planned for Sunday, March 7th.
		There were several Selma marches but the only one that was brought to a swift and violent conclusion was the first one, dubbed "Bloody Sunday," when a posse of Alabama law enforcement officers attacked, clubbed and tear- gassed a peaceful crowd of about 600 people.
	members.shaw.ca /cartermyths/carterselma.htm (850 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Selma to Montgomery marches
		The Selma to Montgomery marches, which included Bloody Sunday, were three marches that marked the political and emotional peak of the American civil rights movement.
		Rather than abiding by the court order the SCLC decided to hold a partial, "ceremonial," march, taking into consideration that they had gathered hundreds of marchers for the event, but did not want to alienate one of the few southern judges who was often sympathetic to their cause.
		That day, after the second march, James Reeb, a white Unitarian Universalist minister from Boston who had come for the second march was attacked with a club in front of the Silver Moon Café, a hangout for whites.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Selma_to_Montgomery_marches (1111 words)

	CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Selma to Montgomery marches, which included Bloody Sunday, were three marches that marked the political and emotional peak of the American civil rights movement.
		Rather than abiding by the court order the SCLC decided to hold a partial, "ceremonial," march, taking into consideration that they had gathered hundreds of marchers for the event, but did not want to alienate one of the few southern judges who was often sympathetic to their cause.
		That day, after the second march, James Reeb, a white Unitarian Universalist minister from Boston who had come for the second march was attacked with a club in front of the Silver Moon Café, a hangout for whites.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Bloody_Sunday_(1965) (1245 words)

	Selma to Montgomery marches Information
		They were the culmination of the movement in Selma for voting rights, launched by Amelia Boynton Robinson and her husband, who brought many prominent leaders of the American Civil Rights Movement to Selma, including Martin Luther King Jr.
		On March 9th King led the marchers out to the Edmund Pettus Bridge and held a short prayer session before turning the marchers back around, thereby not breaking the court order preventing them from marching all the way to Montgomery.
		On March 9, after the second march, James Reeb, a white Unitarian Universalist minister from Boston who had come for the second march and had agreed to stay, was attacked with a club in front of the Silver Moon Café, a hangout for whites.
	www.bookrags.com /Selma_to_Montgomery_marches (925 words)

	The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.: Selma
		However, whether we were marching to Montgomery or to a limited point within the city of Selma could not be determined in advance; the only certain thing was that we had to begin, so that a confrontation with injustice would take place in full view of the millions looking on throughout this nation.
		We made it very clear that this was a march of goodwill and to stimulate the Negro citizenry of Montgomery to make use of the new opportunity that had been provided through the federal court We had a legal and constitutional right to march from Selma to Montgomery.
		After the march to Montgomery, there was a delay at the airport and several thousand demonstrators waited more than five hours, crowding together on the seats, the floors, and the stairways of the terminal building.
	www.stanford.edu /group/King/publications/autobiography/chp_26.htm (6865 words)

	Selma and Civil Rights - The March on Selma
		In 1965 the SCLC joined a voting-rights protest march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital of Montgomery, more than 80 km (50 mi) away.
		The goal of the march was to draw national attention to the struggle for fl voting rights in the state.
		Televised scenes of the violence, on a day that came to be known as Bloody Sunday, resulted in an outpouring of support to continue the march (Selma).
	www.africanaonline.com /selma.htm (382 words)

	Selma (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Reverend King was arrested during one of the marches and his presence in jail attracted additional media attention to Selma.
		At a large memorial service for Lee, a march from Selma to Montgomery was announced that would take place on March 7th.
		On March 21st, after the court injunction had been lifted and the Alabama national guard had been federalized to provide protection, the march began again.
	www.multied.com /Sixties/Selma.html (416 words)

	LBJ Library and Museum - Selma to Montgomery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		By early March, several civil rights groups planned a march to Montgomery to dramatize registration inequities.
		After two unsuccessful marches, many injured marchers, several deaths, a presidential speech proposing the Voting Rights Act, and federalizing the Alabama National Guard, the march from Selma to Montgomery began on March 21, 1965.
		The marchers gathered in the evening of March 21, 1965 and the 50 mile march from Selma to Montgomery began on March 22 and lasted for 4 days.
	www.lbjlib.utexas.edu /johnson/lbjforkids/selma-mont.shtm (531 words)

	EarthStation1.com - The Civil Rights Audio / Video Archive - The Selma Marches Audio & Video
		King addresses assembled demonstrators before their first of three marches from Selma to the Montgomery, Alabama Courthouse in order to be registered to vote.
		The March attempts to resume two days later in what became the second March from Selma, this time with many more marchers and the support of large numbers of clergy and White liberals from both north and south.
		The March began two days later and picked up huge popular and celebrity support along the way, until finally on 3/25 they reached the Courthouse where they assembled to listen to Dr. King deliver a rousing and finely moral speech before they finally went into the Courthouse to register to vote.
	www.earthstation1.com /The_Selma_Marches.html (476 words)

	Did Martin Luther King phone Carter?
		State troopers attack and spray tear gas on protestors in Selma on March 7, 1965: "Bloody Sunday." The figure on the ground in the light colored coat is John Lewis.
		A march from Selma to Montgomery (to confront Governor George Wallace) was first planned for Sunday, March 7th.
		There were several Selma marches but the only one that was brought to a swift and violent conclusion was the first one, dubbed "Bloody Sunday," when a posse of Alabama law enforcement officers attacked, clubbed and tear- gassed a peaceful crowd of about 600 people.
	www.members.shaw.ca /cartermyths/carterselma.htm (850 words)

	Selma to Montgomery March
		Selma to Montgomery March: Voting is one of the most valuable rights of a U.S. citizen.
		Selma faced the same problem as many other towns in Alabama and other southern states at that time—African-American citizens were denied access to the polls.
		By this time, the Selma incidents were a national media event, drawing an estimated 30,000 people to Montgomery to meet the marchers, including celebrities like Harry Belafonte, Nina Simone, and Sammy Davis, Jr.
	mi.essortment.com /selmatomontgom_rtop.htm (553 words)

	My Way News - In Selma, Obama Appeals to Black Voters
		On his first visit to Selma, Obama was coming face-to-face with Democratic rival Hillary Rodham Clinton as the candidates seek support from the party's loyal fl constituency.
		The Selma civil rights demonstrations, Obama said, reverberated across the globe and helped inspire his father growing up in Kenya to aspire to something beyond his job herding goats.
		On March 21, 1965, after a federal court overturned Wallace's ban, King led the five-day march to the capital.
	apnews.myway.com /article/20070304/D8NLIKF00.html (1021 words)

	Selma, Alabama
		The city is known for the Selma to Montgomery marches, three civil rights marches that began in this city.
		Union General J. Wilson's troops destroyed Selma's army arsenal and factories, and much of the city, in a fiery, bloody siege.
		After appealing to a Federal judge, permission was granted for the march which began with 2500 and ended with 25,000 people marching the 50 miles to Montgomery.
	www.creekin.net /c7352-n203-selma-alabama.html (2360 words)

	We Shall Overcome -- Selma-to-Montgomery March
		The Selma-to-Montgomery March for voting rights ended three weeks--and three events--that represented the political and emotional peak of the modern civil rights movement.
		Then civil rights leaders sought court protection for a third, full-scale march from Selma to the state capitol in Montgomery.
		Federal District Court Judge Frank M. Johnson, Jr., weighed the right of mobility against the right to march and ruled in favor of the demonstrators.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nR/travel/civilrights/al4.htm (332 words)

	Civil Rights Movement Bibliography
		Marching Toward Freedom 1957-1965: From the Founding of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to the Assassination of Malcom X (Milestones in Black American History) by Robert Weisbrot.
		The organizer of the March on Washington (1963), an advisor to Dr. King, a teacher of Gandhian nonviolence, and one of the original motivating leaders of the Movement.
		Story of the Selma campaign 1964-65 and the March to Montgomery by an SCLC field worker.
	www.crmvet.org /biblio.htm (9776 words)

	American Experience \| Eyes on the Prize \| The Story of the Movement \| PBS
		Selma -- State troopers quietly turned back a massive right-to-vote march led Tuesday by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who had begun the pilgrimage to Alabama's capital in defiance of a federal court ruling and a plea by President [Lyndon] Johnson...
		The Selma to Montgomery march was a public-relations disaster for Alabama governor George Wallace, and his role in opposing protesters was condemned in a doo-wop style song named after him.
		Last is a clip of the third march to Montgomery, and King speaking ("Our feet are tired but our souls are rested...") after the group successfully arrives there.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/eyesontheprize/story/10_march.html (1196 words)

	TBH, Delta Log 1996 1 of 2
		The road took us to Montgomery and Selma, Alabama, for what was to become a Civil Rights tour; into more remote and troubling parts of western Alabama; across the hills of northern Mississippi into Memphis; then finally down Highway 61 to the four-day festival in Helena, Arkansas.
		King came to Selma to lead marches to the county courthouse, where the county's voters were registered, but also where fls were turned away.
		As she drove back to Selma with a young fl marcher on the night of March 25, a car pulled alongside hers, someone opened fire, and she was killed.
	www.thebluehighway.com /delta96.html (1519 words)

	Auto Transport to Alabama: - National Auto Transport
		The 1955-56 bus boycott in Montgomery, sparked by Rosa Parks' courageous stand against discrimination on public transportation and led by Martin Luther King, Jr., was a seminal event in the movement.
		The violence-torn marches in Selma and the vicious, cowardly church bombing in Birmingham in which four little girls lost their lives were other key events.
		The state capital of Montgomery, 90 miles south of Birmingham, is a city of compelling historical contrasts.
	www.auto-transporter.com /auto_transport/alabama.htm (681 words)

	ADAH: Alabama Moments (Selma-to-Montgomery March--Quick Summary)
		Attempt, March 7, "Bloody Sunday": Marchers trekked from Browns Chapel AMEZ to Edmund Pettus Bridge, but were viciously attacked by local police and state troopers.
		Attempt, March 21: Marchers, with the protection of a federal court order and a Federalized National Guard, proceeded to the state Capitol to petition for voting rights.
		March 24: At "Stars for Freedom" rally near Montgomery, at City of Saint Jude, world-renowned entertainers performed inspirational show then joined the march the next day.
	www.alabamamoments.state.al.us /sec59qs.html (386 words)

	See America's Byways - Selma to Montgomery March Byway, Alabama
		Wind through the streets of Selma, past farmland and gently rolling hills, to campsites where marchers spent the night on their way to Montgomery, Alabama's capital city.
		In Selma the march began and in Selma the tour of the Selma to Montgomery byway also begins with the Martin Luther King, Jr.
		Further on is the Dallas County Courthouse, the destination of most protest marches in an effort to register to vote.
	www.seeamerica.org /byways/html/byways_pages/ALselma.html (451 words)

	Penn State Libraries \| Press Releases 2005
		Starting with 3,200 individuals, the march swelled to 25,000 persons by the time it reached Montgomery for a culminating demonstration at the Alabama State Capitol.
		The photographs also depict a symbolic march on March 9, rallies in churches and neighborhoods, and non-violent resistance by demonstrators.
		As a result of the Selma marches, public pressure was exerted on Congress and the Johnson Administration to permit African Americans to vote in southern states where the franchise had consistently been denied.
	www.libraries.psu.edu /news/releases/2005/selmaexhpr_305.html (528 words)

	Bridge photos, Bridge postcards -- Bridgepix.com
		The Edmund Pettus Bridge, named for Edmund Winston Pettus, a Confederate brigadier general, and eventual U.S. Senator, is a bridge in Selma, Alabama.
		It is infamous as the site of the conflict of Bloody Sunday (March 7, 1965), where armed officers attacked peaceful civil rights demonstrators.
		Selma to Montgomery Marches - John Lewis and Hosea Williams lead marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, March 7, 1965 The Selma to Montgomery marches, which included Bloody Sunday, were three marches that marked the political and emotional peak of the American civil rights movement.
	www.bridgepix.com /bridgeblog/?p=370 (223 words)

	Selma Marches
		In March of 1965, the SCLC Church planned to march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
		The march was organized to publicize the need for federal legislation to insure fl votersÃ rights.
		The march was brutally stopped by state police.
	share4.esd105.wednet.edu /jprescot/MLK/tsld007.htm (102 words)

	Schiller Institute Amelia Boynton Robinson Remembers Bloody Sunday
		In Selma, Alabama, the nucleus of the struggle, we have a fl mayor, mayor pro-tem, city councilmen, two judges, a fire chief, county commissioners, and a fl county attorney, who happens to be my son, attorney Bruce Carver Boynton, for ten years.
		Several marches followed, but it was the procession on March 7, 1965, often referred to as "Bloody Sunday", that made history.
		In March 1965, Robinson was in the forefront of the march from Selma to Montgomery, known as "Bloody Sunday," where she was brutally beaten and gassed.
	www.schillerinstitute.org /highlite/2005/bloody_sunday.html (1549 words)

	Obama, Clintons Campaign at Selma Events - Central Florida News 13
		Barack Obama reached out to the civil rights generation Sunday on the anniversary of the Bloody Sunday march, saying the protesters helped pave the way for his campaign to become the first fl president.
		Her white family also was inspired for unity by the Selma marches.
		On that day, hundreds of marchers had begun to walk from the Brown Chapel AME Church _ where Obama was to deliver the keynote address Sunday _ despite a ban on protest marches by then-Gov. George Wallace.
	www.cfnews13.com /News/National/2007/3/4/obama_clintons_campaign_at_selma_events.html (852 words)

	Selma alabama - The #1 Resource for Adventure series
		Selma is a city in Alabama located on the banks of the Alabama River in Dallas.
		SELMA, Alabama (CNN) In 1965, Alabama state troopers and local deputies stopped and clubbed fl activists as they marched peacefully from Selma to Montgomery..
		Montgomery Advertiser He made the remarks Wednesday at the Alabama Legislative Orientation for new lawmakers at the University of Alabama.
	s5.realgolfonline.org /adventureseries/selma-alabama.html (588 words)

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