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selma
to
montgomery
marches
Mavis Staples
march 7,9,21 1965
the right to vote
1st march
bloody sunday
2nd march
MLK turns back at edmund pettus bridge
3rd march
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Martin Luther King Jr. starts marching with 600 people from Selma Alabama.
Three days later they arrive in Montgomery Alabama with 20,000 people.
President Lyndon B. Johnson supports the march and passes the Voter Rights Act of 1965.
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