Read the excerpt from "March on Montgomery from Selma."I am here as an American; an American with a conscience, a sense of justice, and a deep concern for all of the people and problems of our country. I came here to identify with the just cause of the right of Alabama Negroes to vote as our President himself has said every good American should.
Read the excerpt from "A March to Enact Change.”By providing Black voters the means to challenge voting restrictions, voter turnout among Black Americans increased from 1964 to 1969. Combined with the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act also enabled greater numbers of Black Americans to run for local, state, and national offices.
Read the excerpt from "March on Montgomery from Selma."I say to Governor Wallace that no American can ever be an "outsider" anywhere in this country. And, Governor, all these people out here, who have come in a great phalanx, are very great Americans, black and white, the greatest, for they seek to bring unity and maximum strength to this country to the end that it may become, as it can become, white and black together, the greatest society not only of contemporary times but in the entire history of mankind.
Read the excerpt from "A March to Enact Change.”In his own response to the events in Alabama, President Johnson spoke to the country on national television in support of the marchers. He discussed how the issue was not simply the problem of one race or one region, but one that faced America as a united country.
Read the excerpt from "Women’s Right to Vote.”The campaign for woman suffrage was long, difficult, and sometimes dramatic; yet ratification did not ensure full enfranchisement. Decades of struggle to include African Americans and other minority women in the promise of voting rights remained. Many women remained unable to vote long into the 20th century because of discriminatory state voting laws.
Read the excerpt from "A March to Enact Change.”[O]n March 9, another protest was held on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. A multiracial group of more than 2,000 marched across the bridge only to find state troopers blocking Highway 80. In this instance, however, the troopers allowed King and the marchers to stand in prayer and then pass.
Read the excerpt from "A March to Enact Change.”[President Johnson] added that it was the responsibility of all Americans to face this injustice and the government’s responsibility to protect these rights. In addition, he spoke about voting rights and the critical need for all American citizens to be able to participate in elections.
Read the excerpt from "A March to Enact Change.”[O]n March 9, another protest was held on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. A multiracial group more than 2,000 marched across the bridge only to find state troopers blocking Highway 80. In this instance, however, the troopers allowed King and the marchers to stand in prayer and then pass. Inferring from this that the troopers were allowing the marchers to pass to provide a legal opportunity for establishing a federal injunction (which would prevent the march), King turned the group around. This decision was met with much criticism from protesters who wished to proceed with the march despite the risks.
Read the excerpt from "A March to Enact Change.”By providing Black voters the means to challenge voting restrictions, voter turnout among Black Americans increased from 1964 to 1969. Combined with the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act also enabled greater numbers of Black Americans to run for local, state, and national offices.
Read the excerpt from "A March to Enact Change."In his own response to the events in Alabama, President Johnson spoke to the country on national television in support of the marchers. He discussed how the issue was not simply the problem of one race or one region, but one that faced America as a united country.
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