21 mars 2004 - Voting Rights Act of 1965

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Martin Luther King Jr. organizes groups of African Americans to attempt to register as voters in Selma but instead they were arrested. Students march to the courthouse to protest their arrest. Bloody Sunday: about 600 protesters march from Selma to Montgomery when state troopers attack them as they were crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Thousands of demonstrators led by King marched for five days to the Alabama State Capitol.
King leads Civil Rights demonstrations in Chicago. President Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 eliminating literacy test and other examinations.

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