“When You Pray, Move Your Feet.” Charles White(?), photographer, Selma,
Alabama, March 7, 1965. Photo courtesy of Representative John Lewis. John Lewis (on right in trench coat) and Hosea Williams (on the left) lead marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
On Sunday March 7, 1965, about six hundred people began a fifty-four mile march for
African American voting rights from
Selma,
Alabama to the state capitol in Montgomery. After crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge,
in plain sight of photographers and journalists, state and local police attacked the marchers with billy clubs, whips, and tear gas.
- Library of Congress: Today in History-March 7*
- Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American, March 7
- National Museum of African History & Culture: On This Day*
- Equal Justice Initiative-A History of Racial Injustice: March 7
*In these times of disappearing information and important content being wiped from government websites, finding resources like the Library of Congress and Smithsonian Museums still (so far) providing information about our history is a rare bit of good news. Let's hope these resources will still be there next year.
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