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- Nearly half of the voting-age population was black, but only 1% was registered to vote. This was because the sherrif and his fellow policemen would harras and even arrest black people that would try to sign up to vote at the county courthouse.
- Every night SCLC organized marches to the courthouse and downtown stores, where there would be mass arrests.
- On Sunday morning, hundreds of people left Brown Chapel and headed to the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where they were met by state troopers and local police. The troopers beat them, and this day became known as Bloody Sunday.
- After Bloody Sunday, Dr. King made a national appeal asking people from all around to come to Selma for a second march. Thousands of people, both white and black, answered the call.
- Viola Liuzzo, a white homemaker from Detroit, was killed by a bunch of Klansmen on her way back from a rally in Montgomery.
- As a result of the Selma demonstrations, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was passed, which suspended literacy tests and all other methods of discrimination in voting.
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