Selma to Montgomery marches
1965 · Event
Voting-rights marchers attacked on Edmund Pettus Bridge on 'Bloody Sunday'; LBJ's response: Voting Rights Act.
On these timelines: The Civil Rights Movement, USA, Master
More from The Civil Rights Movement
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat (1955)
- Montgomery bus boycott (1955)
- The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing (1963)
- Birmingham campaign (1963)
- King writes the Letter from Birmingham Jail (1963)
- Freedom Summer (1964)
- The murder of Medgar Evers (1963)
Around 1965
- The Troubles (1968)
- Six-Day War (1967)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Watergate scandal (1972)
- Yom Kippur War (1973)
- Prague Spring (1968)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- The Beatles (1960)