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Selma Voting Rights Campaign & March to Montgomery (Jan-Mar)
Jimmy Lee Jackson Murdered
Bloody Sunday, Selma
Student March, Montgomery
Rev. James Reeb Murdered
Selma-Montgomery March
Murder of Viola Luizzo
Malcolm X Murdered in NY (Feb)
Lowndes County Freedom Organization Founded (Mar)
Oneal Moore Murdered (June)
SCOPE Summer Project (June-Aug)
Southern Courier Founded (July)
Freedom Information Service Founded (July)
Americus GA Protests (July)
Voting Rights Act (Aug)
Watts Rebellion (Aug)
Assasination of Jonathan Daniels (Aug)
Attempted Assasination of George Metcalfe (Aug)
Assembly of Un-Represented People DC (Aug)
Crawfordville, GA, School Bus Struggle (Oct)
Confrontations in Natchez, MS (Oct)
Poor-People's Corporation Founded
Selma Photos
March to Montgomery Photos
See The Selma Injunction
for background and previous events.
See also Selma & the March to
Montgomery for a discussion of the Selma events by Freedom
Movement veterans.
19 Days in March — Chronology (links are to Bay Area Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement's "Selma & March to Montgomery" discussion)
March 7 Sunday.
"Bloody Sunday" march in Selma
SNCC's Mississippi staff comes to
Selma
March 8 Monday. Injunction against marching to
Montgomery
March 9 Tuesday.
"Turn-Around Tuesday" march in Selma
Tuskegee students call for "2nd Front"
SNCC vs SCLC Meeting
Ministers beaten, Rev. Reeb hospitalized
March 10 Wednesday.
"Berlin Wall" stops marches in Selma
Tuskegee students & SNCC arrive in
Montgomery
Students march on Montgomery Capitol
building
March 11 Thursday.
Rev. Reeb dies from the beating on Tuesday
"Berlin Wall" vigil continues in Selma
Confrontation At Dexter Church
March 12 Friday. "Berlin Wall" vigil continues in Selma
March 13 Saturday.
Boycott pickets in Selma
"Berlin Wall" vigil continues in Selma
March 14 Sunday.
"Berlin Wall" vigil continues in Selma
LBJ's "We Shall Overcome" speech calls for
Voting Rights bill
March 15 Monday.
Court overturns "Berlin Wall,"
Reeb memorial mass march in Selma
Student march in Montgomery
March 16 Tuesday.
Student march attacked in Montgomery
Forman's angry speech to mass meeting in Montgomery
March 17 Wednesday.
Mass march to Montgomery courthouse
Student pickets arrested in Montgomery
Injunction against March to Montgomery lifted.
March 18. Thursday.
March to Montgomery organization & preparation
Demonstrations continue in Selma and Montgomery
March 19. Friday.
March to Montgomery organization & preparation
Demonstrations continue in Selma and Montgomery
March 20. Saturday.
March to Montgomery organization & preparation
Demonstrations continue in Selma and Montgomery
March 21-March 24 Sunday-Wednesday.
The March to Montgomery
March 25 Thursday.
March and rally at the Alabama Capitol building
Murder of Viola Liuzzo
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For more information:
Books: Selma Voting Rights Campaign & March to Montgomery
Web links:
Selma Voting Rights Campaign & March to Montgomery
Martyrs of the Movement
Personal stories from the Selma Voting Rights Campaign:
Charles Bonner & Betty Fikes
Bruce Hartford
Eric Lerner
Gwen Patton Insurgent Memories
Wazir Peacock
Ruby Sales
Jean Wiley
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For more information:
Web: Malcolm X
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For more information:
Web: Lowndes County Freedom Organization
Personal stories from Lowndes County:
Jimmy Rogers
Ruby Sales
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For more information:
Web: Martyrs of the Movement
(Description to be written.)
For more information:
Books: Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Web links:
SCOPE Summer Project
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Personal stories from the SCOPE project:
Maria Gitin Letter From Movement Boot Camp
Bruce Hartford
Southern Courier Founded (July 65-Dec 68)
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For more information:
Articles:
Reporters and Reformers Robert Norrell, Master's thesis, University of Virginia, 1978.
"Reporters and Reformers: Story of Southern Courier," South Atlantic Quarterly, (Winter 1980)
Web:
Southern Courier
Sample Issues of the Southern Courier
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See Integrating Americus High School for preceding events.
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For more information:
Books: Georgia Movement — Atlanta — Albany
Web: Albany, Americus, & SW Georgia Movements.
(Description to be written.)
For more information:
Books: Civil Rights Legislation
Web: Voting Rights Act — 1965
(Description of affect on Southern Freedom Movement to be written.)
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For more information:
Book: Outside Agitator: Jon Daniels and the Civil Rights Movement in
Alabama.
Web links:
Assasination of Jonathan Daniels for web links.
Martyrs of the Movement
Personal memory: Ruby Sales
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