The Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail commemorates the events, people, and route of the 1965 Voting Rights March in Alabama. Fifty four miles between Selma and Montgomery, Alabama helped to change American history. From 1870, the Constitution of the United States guaranteed the right to vote regardless of “race, color, or previous condition of servitude,” but a number of States sought to prevent African Americans from being able to register to vote, Alabama was one of them. Led by Dr. Martin Luther King and John Lewis in January of 1965, marchers went to the Dallas County Courthouse in Selma to rally for voting rights. Dr. King and another protester were arrested, and Jimmie Lee Jackson was killed.
The Selma to Montgomery marches was three marches in 1965 that marked the political and emotional peak of the American civil rights movement. They grew out of the voting rights movement in Selma, Alabama, launched by local African-Americans who formed the Dallas County Voters League (DCVL). In 1963, the DCVL and organizers from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) began voter-registration work. When white resistance to Black voter registration proved intractable, the DCVL requested the assistance of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, who brought many prominent civil rights and civic leaders to support voting rights. Planning the First March With civil rights activity blocked by Judge Hare's injunction, the DCVL
In the absence of a vibrant movement for racial justice and in an era that has been labeled “postracial,” the relevance of the Civil War appears far less clear than it did fifty years ago. In 1963 it seemed entirely appropriate for Martin Luther King Jr. to begin his “I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial with a reference to the unfulfilled promise of the Emancipation Proclamation. Such rhetoric is rarely heard today, when the black freedom struggle, intensely divisive when it took place, has been transformed into a narrative of national unity, a fulfillment of bedrock American principles rather than the “revolution in values” called for by King. Even neo-Confederates portray the Old South as a multicultural paradise of racial harmony and invent imaginary legions of black Confederate soldiers to demonstrate that both sides can claim credit for the end of slavery. In a society in which everyone from Glenn Beck to President Obama assumes the mantle of the civil rights movement, slavery seems not to arouse as much interest as in the past.
Southern Democrats had promised to oppose the bill. (wikapedia.com). The 1964 Civil Rights Act put an end to the South’s segregation laws, outlawed employment discrimination and forbade discrimination in federal programs; securing the right to the ballot for black Americans living in the south. In the process of challenging social injustice for the good of all who are both directly and indirectly discriminated against. Malcolm X delivered his speech “The Ballot or the Bullet in Cleveland Ohio on April 3rd 1964, an election year that would go on to echo throughout the years.
He changes the laws of lunch counters, restrooms, fitting rooms, and drinking fountains. The main part he did was the massive march on Washington, D.C., and his “I Have a Dream” speech which were estimated 250,000 people. The difference between Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. was that Martin Luther King Jr. was a man, who delivered moving speeches about peace and goodness; he came from a family that was well known in Atlanta with loving parents. But Malcolm X was the complete opposite, he was about baring arms to fight for something, people didn’t know about him. He had a bad childhood by his house being burned, his father being murdered and his mother suffered a breakdown and it lead up to a family split up.
Plantations were a big part of the economy in the South because that’s where they grew their cotton, and without slaves, the plantations would die. The economy was a cause in the Civil War because the North and South started to realize who wanted slaves and who didn’t. Another important cause of the Civil War was conflict between the North and the South about the issue of slavery. Slavery was a big issue in the South, whereas the North yearned for the abolish of slave labor. According to Document 1, Railroads were slim in the South, for the reason that slaves would have an easy way to escape.
Martin Luther king started off in a career as a Baptist minister and then inspired on to become a civil rights activist early in his career. Martin Luther king experienced racial prejudice due to the colour of his skin. Martin felt that all the protests should be non-violent tactics by doing this many civil rights activists were keen to follow and copy martin, and in 1955 he held the Montgomery bus boycott, this is where they would boycott city buses until they could sit anywhere they wanted, instead of being relegated to the back when a white boarded. Martin Luther king led in 1963 the march on Washington where king delivered his “i have a dream” speech. Over 250,000 people turned up to listen to him.
Chapter 7 Quote 7: “Slavery soon proved its ability to divest her to these heavenly qualities” (Douglass, Page 43) In this quote its explaining how his mistress was a very good person to the poor and then when slavery started it stopped her from being able to do good deeds. He is explaining how selfish slavery is and how unfair it is that his mistress can’t do good things for un lucky people all because slavery begun. Slavery wasn’t fair to any colored Americans, especially for ones like her. Chapter 8 Quote 8: “We all felt that we might as well be sold at once to the Georgia traders, as to pass into his hands; for we knew that that would be our inevitable condition-a condition held by us all in the utmost horror and dread.” (Douglass, Page
Northerners saw the Klan as an attempt to win through terrorism what they had been unable to win on the battlefield. Such a simple view did not totally explain the Klan's sway over the South, but there is little doubt that many Confederate veterans exchanged their rebel gray for the hoods and sheets of the invisible empire. The conditions in the South, immediately after the war, added to Southerners' fears and frustrations. Cities, plantations and farms were ruined; people were broke and often hungry; there was an occupation army in their midst; and Reconstruction governments threatened to seize the traditional white ruling authority. In the first few months after the fighting ended, white Southerners had to contend with the losses of life, property, and in their eyes, honor.
This is where sectionalism came to be a huge role in the cause of the Civil War. The idea of a man against slavery becoming president made the South angry, how could a man who believed the complete opposite be at all fair or do anything they requested to better their economy and conditions? The South did not want Lincoln as a president, so they succeeded from the Union. The South’s whole economy came from plantations farming and slave labor, without slaves the felt that the South could not survive. The South’s population was slow on the ride and the talk of abolitions and the end of slavery was not good news to them.