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The Albany Movement forms a broad local coalition

📅 17 November 1961

Local 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 Augustus 1963

A 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 Maart 1965

John 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 Maart 1965

Demonstrators 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 Maart 1965

The 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 Juni 1966

Meredith was wounded while walking through Mississippi to challenge intimidation and encourage Black political participation. Civil rights organizations continued the march after the attack. Their...