Selma to Montgomery: Pivotal in Civil Rights

The State Capitol
On March 25, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered the petition calling for better treatment and voting rights for Selma's blacks to the statehouse. Governor George Wallace refused to accept it. Addressing the crowd of 25,000 that had gathered that day, King said, "Let us march on ballot boxes until race baiters disappear from the political arena...How long will it take? How Long? Not Long. Because the arm of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice."

• The Greensboro Sit-In