During the summer of 1964, almost 100 years after ratification of 15th amendment, thousands of civil rights workers spread throughout the South to work on behalf of black voter registration. Martin Luther King leads a group of demonstrators from Selma, Alabama who are attacked on the Edmund Pettis Bridge. Televised coverage of the mob violence shocks Americans who do not live in the South. When the Voting Rights Act is passed in August of 1965 only a handful of blacks are registered in Dallas County where Selma is located, but within next 3 or 4 months federal examiners register 15,000 black voters.

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summer of 1964, civil rights workers, disenfranchisement of blacks, registering blacks to vote, Voting Rights Act of 1965, march from Selma, King, Martin Luther, attack on Edmund Pettis Bridge, reaction to televised brutality increase in registration of black voters, Restless Society, The

African American History, America in the 20th Century, American History, American Studies, Ethnicity and Race Relations, Unfinished Nation, The

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