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Selma and the Voting Rights Act
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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...
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.
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- Creator
- David Aretha
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- Greensboro, N.C. : Morgan Reynolds Pub., [2008]
- ©2008
- Physical Details
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- 128 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781599350561, 1599350564
- OCLC
- ocn145146230
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-122) and index.
- White voters only -- Demanding the ballot -- Bloody Selma -- "We shall overcome" -- The march -- Breakthrough at the ballot box -- Life after Selma -- Timeline
Subjects
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 -- Juvenile literature.
- United States. -- Juvenile literature.
- Selma to Montgomery Rights March (1965 : Selma, Ala.) -- Juvenile literature.
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature -- Alabama -- Selma.
- Civil rights movements -- Alabama -- Selma -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
- African Americans -- Suffrage -- Alabama -- Selma -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
- Selma (Ala.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.