Because they marched : the people's campaign for voting rights that changed America [eAudiobook - hoopla]

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Because they marched : the people's campaign for voting rights that changed America

(2017)

By: Freedman, Russell

Nonfiction

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[United States] : Dreamscape Media, LLC, 2017
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Unabridged

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1 online resource (1 audio file (1hr., 47 min.)) : digital

ISBN/ISSN

9781666585834 MWT11790350, 1666585831 11790350

LANGUAGE

English

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Read by Rodney Gardiner

In the early 1960's, tired of reprisals for attempting to register to vote, Selma's black community began to protest. The struggle received nationwide attention when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led a voting rights march in January, 1965, and was attacked by a segregationist. In February, the shooting of an unarmed demonstrator by an Alabama state trooper inspired a march from Selma to the state capital of Montgomery. The march got off to a horrific start on March 7 as law officers attacked peaceful demonstrators. Broadcast throughout the world, the violence attracted widespread outrage and spurred demonstrators to complete the march at any cost. On March 25, after several setbacks, protesters completed the fifty-four-mile march to a cheering crowd of 25,000 supporters

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