History of the United States II / Unit 14 USH2 1986 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Selma
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The idea
On March seventh, nineteen sixty-five, marchers heading from Selma to Montgomery were attacked on the Edmund Pettus Bridge by state police with batons and tear gas: Bloody Sunday.
In practice
Selma's voting rolls, ninety-nine percent White in a city where Black residents slightly outnumbered White, as Digital History records.
Where people slip
The anchor says Bloody Sunday helped build support for the movement among northern White people.
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