Selma to Montgomery: Pivotal in Civil Rights

Selma Today
The impact of the march was long and profound. Within days of Bloody Sunday, president Johnson would present a bill to Congress that would gain passage later that year as the Voting Rights Act. Among those attending the signing was Amelia Boynton, the woman who had been so severely wounded during the March 7 attacks. Shortly after the passage of the bill, 7,000 blacks were added to the voting rolls. And in the coming decades, registration of black voters statewide would increase more than tenfold.

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