selma (ala.)

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.

An oral history of the American civil rights movement in Selma, Alabama from the perspective of an African-American lawyer.

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.