Selma to Montgomery March (1965)?

Question

What was the tactics, goals and accomplishments of the Selma to Montgomery March back in 1965

Answer 1

The Selma to Montgomery marches, which included Bloody Sunday, were three marches that marked the political and emotional peak of the American civil rights movement. They were the culmination of the voting rights movement in Selma, Alabama, launched by Amelia Boynton Robinson and her husband. Robinson brought many prominent leaders of the American Civil Rights Movement to Selma, including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Jim Bevel and Hosea Williams. "Bloody Sunday" occurred on March 7, 1965, when 600 civil rights marchers were attacked by state and local police with billy clubs and tear gas. Only the third, and last, march successfully made it into Montgomery, Alabama. The route is memorialized as the Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail.On March 7, 1965, 525 to 600 civil rights marchers headed east out of Selma on U.S. Highway 80. Discrimination and intimidation had prevented Selma's black population, roughly half of the city, from registering to vote three weeks earlier. On February 18, 1965, a trooper, (Corporal James Bonard Fowler) shot Jimmie Lee Jackson as he tried to protect his mother and grandfather in a café to which they had fled while being attacked by troopers during a civil rights demonstration. Jackson died of an infection at Selma's Good Samaritan Hospital eight days later. The marchers hoped to bring notice to the violations of their rights by marching to the state capitol in Montgomery. Dr. King called for a march from Selma to Montgomery to ask Governor George Wallace to protect black registrants. Wallace denounced the march as a threat to public safety and declared he would take all measures necessary to prevent it. In their first march, led by John Lewis and the Reverend Hosea Williams, and followed by Bob Mants, they made it only as far as the Edmund Pettus Bridge, six blocks away. State troopers and the Dallas County Sheriff's Department, some mounted on horseback, awaited them. In the presence of the news media, the lawmen attacked the peaceful demonstrators with billy clubs, tear gas, and bull whips, driving them back into Selma.


Police wait for marchers to come across the Edmund Pettus BridgeBrutal televised images of the attack, which presented people with horrifying images of marchers left bloodied and severely injured, roused support for the U.S. civil rights movement. Amelia Boynton Robinson was beaten and gassed nearly to death — her photo appeared on the front page of newspapers and news magazines around the world. Seventeen marchers were hospitalized, leading to the naming of the day "Bloody Sunday". Rosa Parks also marched with them, along with Thomas Fitzpatrick Jones.

Answer 2

One should perhaps not over complicate this. The tactic was simple MLK strategy ... peaceful march. The goal was to have African-Americans gain the real right to vote in Alabama. And the accomplishments, thanks to the resistance of the whites and their brutality, the march received national coverage and began the serious change to allowing blacks to vote in Selma and other communities in Alabama.

Answer 3

What 1965 report? I don't believe it until I see it. I think most of what you're claiming here is a total fantasy, a very prejudiced white person's psychological projection of what "must" have been happening in 1965. However, there was at least some interracial sex that occurred during the Civil Rights movement, and some of the white women from the north got tired of being pressured to engage it it as supposed proof of their commitment to opposing racism. The reaction of white liberal and radical women against being pressured into sex by men, both black men in the civil rights movement and white men in the anti-war movement, was one of the roots of the late 1960s feminist movement, according to some feminist writers. It wasn't that the radical feminist women were anti-sex, or even anti-interracial sex. But many of them got tired of being treated as "sex objects" and sex objects alone by the radical men they were working in coalitions with. Some of the anger of the 1960s and 1970s feminist movement arose from this. See Sara Evans, "Personal Politics: The Roots of Women's Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement and the New Left."