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Selma’s Voting Rights Triumphs and Lingering Tensions
Decade after the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march, black registration rose from 29 to 62 percent. Selma elected black officials, expanded federal funding, and faced ongoing challenges. Notable figures include Coretta King, Andrew Young, and local leaders Reese and Smitherman. The era’s violence—Jackson, Daniels, Liuzzo—haunted progress as Klansmen were convicted in federal court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Selma
Montgomery
Dallas
Lowndes County
Black Belt
Bullock County
Macon
Greene County
Martin Luther King
Jefferson Davis Highway
Alabama
Coretta King
South
Jim Clark
Clark
Wilson Baker
Dallas County
Frederick D. Reese
East Side
Reese
Dallas County Voters League
King
Jim Stallings
General Services Department
Randall Miller
Joe Smitherman
Washington
Rep
Andrew Young
Georgia
Young
Congress
Rules Committee
America
Boston
James J. Reed
Marion
Jimmy Lee Jackson
Hayneville
Lowndes
Episcopal Seminary
Jonathan Daniels
Keene
N.H
U.S. Highway 80
Detroit
Viola Liuzzo
Deep South
Dixie
Ala
Johnson
Edmund Pettus
Stallings
General Services