Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Selma civil rights march

Segregation and discrimination kept most African Americans from voting in the South, even after the U.S. Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. That began to change after the civil rights march on March 7, 1965, in nearby Selma, Ala., during which Alabama state troopers charged at the walkers and beat them with nightsticks and whips at the Edmund Pettus Bridge.



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