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The March

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On 25 March 1965, and after a five day, 54-mile march from Selma, Alabama, Martin Luther King led thousands of civil rights activists to the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, to join big groups that had been campaigning for voting rights. MLK also gave a speech titled 'How Long, Not Long?". The protesters were met with violent resistance by state and local authorities. King told the assembled crowd: ‘‘There never was a moment in American history more honorable and more inspiring than the pilgrimage of clergymen and laymen of every race and faith pouring into Selma to face danger at the side of its embattled Negroes’’ (King, ‘‘Address at the Conclusion of the Selma to Montgomery March,’’ 121). The campaign in Selma Alabama, progressed with mass arrests but little violence for the first month. This historic march, and King’s participation in it, greatly helped raise awareness of the difficulty faced by black voters in the country.



 
 

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