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This monument in front of Brown Chapel memorializes the contributions of Martin Luther King, Jr., to the voting rights movement. There is an adjoining monument for three persons killed in the voting rights struggle. |
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This monument in front of Brown Chapel memorializes the contributions of Martin Luther King, Jr., to the voting rights movement. There is an adjoining monument for three persons killed in the voting rights struggle. |
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There were three attempts to march from
Selma.
The first march was turned back by Southern white resistance. The second march was stopped by a U.S. Court injunction. The third march, which left Brown Chapel on March 21, 1965, was successful. |
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This is the monument to the three
persons who were killed.
James Reeb was a white marcher who was hit over the head with a club while walking down the street in Selma. Viola Liuzzo was shot while driving marchers from Montgomery back to Selma. Jimmy Lee Jackson was killed in a struggle with police and white supremacists during a supporting demonstration in nearby Marion, Alabama. |
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As the first of the three marches began, the protesters crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The bridge carried U.S. 80, the highway to Montgomery, over the Alabama River. The river marked the southern edge of downtown Selma. |