Freedom Children Story Board
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- Black People would attempt to go to the Country Courthouse to register to vote but Sheriff Jim Clark and his posse would turn them away or arrest them
- Sunday Morning: March 7, 1965: Hundreds of members from the SCLC left Brown Chapel. They were headed for the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where state troopers and local officers met them. Troopers beat the members viciously and it became a police riot also known as Bloody Sunday.
- Television stations all over America stopped local programs and showed footage of the police riot. President Johnson held a news conference and basically said that African-American's cause should be everybody else's cause. He also said that everyone must overcome the "crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice".
- BOOOOO! SHERIFF CLARK!
- Yes! We Did It!
- Martin Luther King Jr held a speech and in that speech, he asks for a national appeal. In the national appeal, he asks for everyone around the country to join him and others for a march. As a result, thousands of people joined the march.
- The Civil Rights Movement grew bigger because the people part of it showed that they didn't have to use violence. They were able to do something peaceful and completely unharmful. This helped bring faster change for voting rights.
- In conclusion, the president passed a law for voting rights. Then a few months later, Congress passed it. 9000 African-Americans registered to vote. Sheriff Clark went out of office.
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