Because They Marched: The People’s Campaign for Voting Rights that Changed America Audiobook (Free)

In the early 1960s, tired of reprisals for wanting to enroll to vote, Selma’s black community began to protest. The struggle received countrywide attention when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led a voting rights march in January, 1965, and was attacked with a segregationist. In Feb, the shooting of an unarmed demonstrator by an Alabama condition trooper motivated a march from Selma to the condition capital of Montgomery. The march got away to a horrific start on March 7 as legislation officers attacked relaxing demonstrators. Broadcast across the world, the assault attracted wide-spread outrage and spurred demonstrators to full the march no matter what. On March 25, after several setbacks, protesters finished the fifty-four-mile march to a cheering group of 25,000 supporters.