Voting rights marchers are beaten at Edmund Pettus Bridge

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Voting rights marchers are beaten at Edmund Pettus Bridge

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March 7, 1965
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Marchers attempting to leave Selma for their trek to Montgomery are savagely attacked by state police.

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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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