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SELMA T H E B R I D G E T O T H E BALLOT

1 16th Street Baptist Church. 3 Selma, Alabama. Located in over which U.S. Highway 80 runs, River Road. On February 10, 1965, THE CAMPSITES A church in Birmingham, Alabama, the middle of Alabama’s Black Belt, connecting Selma to Montgomery. Sherif Jim Clark’s ofcers violently David Hall Farm. The March 21 that served as a hub of activity this was the largest city in Dallas forced child demonstrators down campsite, located seven miles during mass anti-segregation County and also the county seat. George Washington Carver this road on foot for two miles to from Selma. demonstrations in 1963, including the Homes. A public housing project stop them from protesting. Birmingham Children’s Crusade. In Brown Chapel. One of the Selma in Selma for many black residents, Rosie Steele Farm. The March 22 September of that year, members of churches that allowed activists to the Carver Homes became a staging 4 Marion, Alabama. Located in campsite, located 23 miles the Ku Klux Klan planted a bomb in hold mass meetings during the voting area for demonstrations. the Black Belt, the county seat for from Selma. the basement, killing four girls, Addie rights campaign, including rallies led Perry County had its own groups Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Good Samaritan Hospital. This working for voting rights. Robert Gardner Farm. The Robertson and Denise McNair. Catholic facility was Selma’s black March 23 campsite, located 34 Dallas County Courthouse. The hospital. Jimmie Lee Jackson died 5 Montgomery, Alabama. Located miles from Selma. 2 Black Belt. The rich soil of the site of the registrar’s ofce and the here after being shot. Doctors at the 54 miles east of Selma, the capital Black Belt drew cotton planters—and only place where residents of Dallas hospital also treated people injured city was where Governor George City of St. Jude. The March 24 their enslaved workforce—to the County could register to vote on on Bloody Sunday. Wallace lived and worked. campsite, located 50 miles from region before the Civil War. After the one of the two days each month it Selma. St. Jude was also the location war and into the 20th century, the was open. R.B. Hudson High School. In Selma’s 6 U.S. Highway 80. The road for the “Stars for Freedom” rally. sharecropping system that replaced segregated school system, R.B. Hudson connecting Selma to Montgomery the plantation system kept the largely Edmund Pettus Bridge. A bridge was the black high school attended and the route for the 54-mile black population mired in poverty. that crosses the Alabama River, by many of the student activists. Selma-to-Montgomery march.