Civil Rights Storyboard
Storyboard Text
- We must protest!!
- Reverend C.T. Vivian speaks at a mass meeting in Marion, Alabama.
- Police Troops and an angry mob attack the audience that leaves the church. 27 year-old Jimmie Lee Jackson is shot when trying to protect his mother from being beaten.
- Reverend James Bevel calls for a fifty mile march from Selma to the capital in Montgomery to protest Jackson's Murder and also demand full voting rights for blacks.
- What happened in Selma was an American tragedy.
- On March 7, 1965, hundreds of protesters leave Brown Chapel and head for the Edmund Pettus Bridge for their fifty mile march.
- Once at the bridge, the protesters did not make it out of the Selma limits. There were state troopers and local police who attacked the protesters and the day came to be known as "Bloody Sunday".
- At a news conference, President Johnson says how what happened in Selma was an American tragedy and he asks congress for a passing of the voting act which grants blacks with full voting rights.
Over 30 Million Storyboards Created