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The Selma campaign Martin Luther King Jr., Jimmie Lee Jackson, and the defining struggle of the Civil Rights Era

"Troopers, advance! Those two words, shouted by a police commander in Selma, Alabama, some 50 years ago, changed the course of U.S. history. The date was March 7, 1965. The scene was the Edmund Pettus Bridge. And the resulting violence spurred an appalled nation into action. The Selma Campaign chron...

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Main Author: Swanson, Craig (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Bloomington, IN : Archway Publishing, 2014.
Subjects:
Selma to Montgomery Rights March > (1965 : > Selma, Ala.)
Selma (Ala.) > Race relations > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Civil rights > Alabama > Selma.
Protest movements > Alabama > Selma > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > Alabama > Selma > History > 20th century.
King, Martin Luther, > Jr., > 1929-1968.
Jackson, Jimmy Lee, > 1939-1965.
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