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Organization Timeline
The Albany Movement forms a broad local coalition
📅 17 November 1961Local organizations formed the Albany Movement in Georgia to challenge segregation across community life. Students, churches, voting-rights organizers and women’s groups contributed to the...
The March on Washington links jobs and freedom
📅 28 August 1963A mass demonstration in Washington demanded civil rights protections, employment and economic justice. Movement and labour organizations brought their constituencies together for the March on...
Police attack voting-rights marchers on Bloody Sunday
📅 7 March 1965John Lewis and Hosea Williams led marchers out of Selma toward Montgomery. State troopers and local law-enforcement officers attacked them near the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The violence exposed the...
The protected Selma-to-Montgomery march begins
📅 21 March 1965Demonstrators departed Selma under federal protection after earlier attempts had faced repression. Local residents and national supporters sustained a five-day march demanding voting rights. Federal...
Voting-rights marchers reach Montgomery
📅 25 March 1965The Selma march culminated at Alabama’s capital with a mass rally. Organizers demanded effective political participation for Black citizens rather than acceptance of constitutional promises without...
James Meredith is shot during his March Against Fear
📅 6 June 1966Meredith was wounded while walking through Mississippi to challenge intimidation and encourage Black political participation. Civil rights organizations continued the march after the attack. Their...