The Selma campaign : Martin Luther King Jr., Jimmie Lee Jackson, and the defining struggle of the Civil Rights Era
by Swanson, Craig (Author)
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"Troopers, advance! Those two words, shouted by a police commander in Selma, Alabama, some 50 years ago, changed the course of U.S. history. The date was March 7, 1965. The scene was the Edmund Pettus Bridge. And the resulting violence spurred an appalled nation into action. The Selma Campaign chron... Full description
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King, Martin Luther, > Jr., > 1929-1968.
Jackson, Jimmy Lee, > 1939-1965.
Selma to Montgomery Rights March > (1965 : > Selma, Ala.)
African Americans > Civil rights > Alabama > Selma.
Protest movements > Alabama > Selma > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > Alabama > Selma > History > 20th century.
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