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King speaks at funeral of Jimmy Lee Jackson
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King gives the eulogy at the funeral of Jimmy Lee Jackson, shot in a February voting rights demonstration in Marion, Alabama.
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March 5, 1965
King and Johnson meet to discuss voting rights act
March 7, 1965
Voting rights marchers are beaten at Edmund Pettus Bridge
March 9, 1965
King leads second attempt at a voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala.
March 13, 1965
President Johnson denounces the brutality in Alabama in a meeting with governor George Wallace
March 15, 1965
President Johnson addresses Congress in support of a Voting Rights Bill
March 20, 1965
President Johnson federalizes the Alabama National Guard to oversee Selma to Montgomery march
March 25, 1965
Selma to Montgomery March
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