Selma's Bloody Sunday: Protest, Voting Rights, and the Struggle for Racial Equality

by Robert A. Pratt

Book Overview

The march from Selma to Montgomery starkly illustrated the claims of the civil rights movement--and the raw brutality of the forces arrayed against it.

On Sunday afternoon, March 7, 1965, roughly six hundred peaceful demonstrators set out from Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church in a double-file column to march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital of Montgomery. Leading the march were Hosea Williams of the Southern Christian Leadership...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421421607
• ISBN13: 9781421421605
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.2" x 8.9"