Context – Mid 60s, legal segregation, southern U.S. (or Selma), Jim Crow laws, hate groups (or KKK), Federal laws gives voting rights to all, former slave holding state
Beginning Issue – Blacks are denied voting rights
Actions – MLK Jr. lead whites and blacks in non violent protest, speeches, marches, attempts to register to vote
Reactions – State blocks marchers, sends troops, Bloody Sunday, people are arrested, killed, hurt, threatened, fired
Aftermath – Civil Rights Act of 1964 restores voting rights, ends legal segregation, states must change their Jim Crow laws, progress made towards universal human rights
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