dec 31, 1964 - Selma Campaign March 1965 [POLITICAL]

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50% AA population in Selma, but only 1% of the registered electorate.

MLK kept up the pressure for voting rights for AAs and led a march in an area with a hostile police chief, Jim Clark. Violent behaviour of the police and size of the march (25,000) against a context of the USA needing to give an image of the champion of democracy in a Cold War climate, led Johnson to propose a Voting Rights Bill which became law in August 1965.

Evidence of own actions (pressuring the federal government to pass legislation)

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