The Selma To Montgomery March
On March 21, 1965, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and other civil rights leaders began a march that led thousands from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. This was the third of three marches from Selma to Montgomery.

The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) had been organizing protests in the Selma, Alabama area in support of African American voting rights. In response to the death of protester and deacon Jimmy Lee Jackson, who was shot dead by an Alabama state trooper on February 17, 1965, a march was organized by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and others from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. That initial march held on March 7, 1965 is known as “Bloody Sunday”, hundreds of civil rights protesters were attacked and beaten by state and local police at the beginning of a march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.