March from Selma to Montgomery: How far have we come?

The Edmund Pettus Bridge is a bridge in Selma, Alabama. It is also a very important location in which The Bloody Sunday ( March 7th, 1965) occurred. The Bloody Sunday was the first march of the Selma to Montgomery marches, these marches were known to be the political and emotional peak of the American Rights Movement. Over 600 civil rights marchers were attacked by state and local police. After this first march, a second and third march were organized to take affect. They were more successful than the first march.

I think that these marches have had great historical impact and we have changed our image on segregation movements. By seeing and reading about The Bloody Sunday, many people began to take action on civil rights. An example of this is when President Lyndon Baines Johnson and Governor George Wallace tried to persuade others for civil rights. Later the passed a bill which later became The Voting Rights Act. Johnson also gave a speech that was an important civil right's movement.