selma (ala.)

Paula Young Shelton shares her memories of the civil rights movement and her involvement in the historic march from Selma to Montgomery.

Photographs and easy-to-follow text profile the events surrounding the civil rights march in Selma, Alabama, on March 7, 1965, in which, based on the rights granted by the seventeenth amendment, African-Americans demanded their right to vote.

Provides an account of the events of 1965 when civil rights activists, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., gathered in Selma, Alabama, to protest practices designed to keep African-Americans from being able to vote, and discusses how the televised violence against the activists caused widespread outrage that spurred the passage of the Voting Rights Act.

Depicts the repeated efforts of civil rights advocates to march from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery, only to be interrupted by national guardsmen.

Text and accompanying photographs present the story of two African-American girls who tell their memories of the civil rights marches in Selma, Alabama, in which they participated when they were eight and nine years old.

This book discusses the 1965 March from Selma to Montgomery when 300 African Americans demanded that the government protect their voting rights which led to the August 6, 1965, Voting Rights Act.

Text and accompanying photographs present the story of two African American girls who tell their memories of the civil rights marches in Selma, Alabama, in which they participated when they were eight and nine years old.

Describes the far-reaching repercussions of the events of March 7, 1965 when 525 men, women, and children in Alabama attempted to march from Selma to the state capitol in Montgomery in order to register to vote.