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"We Were There" First Hand Account Notes - //Selma//
//Selma to Montgomery March// [] "Violence mars civil rights march." Image. AP/Wide World Photos. //American History//. ABC-CLIO, 2011. Web. 6 May 2011.
 * "Bloody Sunday"
 * 600 Civil Rights marchers
 * March 7, 1965
 * They only got to Edmund Pettus Bridge - 6 blocks away...attacked by Alabama police officers, beaten and gassed, dogs attacked them...marchers were unarmed
 * wanted the right to vote
 * gassed and beaten with billy clubs in Montgomery
 * Troops attacked John Lewis
 * on March 9th, MLK led them on a march to the bridge
 * Civil rights leaders wanted court protection for a march to Montgomery
 * Sunday March 21, 3200 marchers set out for Montgomery..walked 12 miles a day and slept in fields. They reached the capitol on Thursday, March 25 and were 25,000 strong.
 * Blacks were given voting rights
 * March was bloody but in the end it was successful
 * Many wanted President Johnson to intervene in the Marches.
 * National result- **Voting Rights Act** passed August 3, 1965.
 * 82 percent in favor by House of Reps
 * 81 percent in favor by Senate

Aretha, David. //The Civil Rights Movement Selma and the Voting Rights Act//. 1st ed. Greensboro, NC: Morgan Reynolds Publishing Inc., 2008. 128. Print. Voting Rights Act enforced the 15th amendment

"Our bodies are tired, and our feet are somewhat sore, but today as I stand before you and think back over that great march, I can say as Sister Pollard, a 70-year-old Negro woman who lived in this community during the bus [|boycott], said . . . [when] she was asked while walking if she wanted a ride, . . . she answered, "No." The person said, "Well, aren't you tired?" And with her ungrammatical profundity, she said, "My feets is tired, but my soul is rested." And in a real sense this afternoon, we can say that our feet are tired, but our souls are rested."

MLK

"Selma to Montgomery March." //American History//. ABC-CLIO, 2011. Web. 6 May 2011.