Re. Selma 1965 March
In the years leading up to the Voting Rights Act, whose passage was a direct response to the famous Selma-to-Montgomery marches in March 1965, civil rights activists tirelessly worked to end voter discrimination. Meanwhile, the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division sought to curb racial discrimination in Alabama that kept Black individuals from voting. The cases in this collection include the DOJ complaints about voter discrimination and harassment in Alabama, civil rights activists' complaints against various coercive practices, the injunction allowing protesters to assemble in March 1965, and the DOJ's prosecution of the Klansmen who killed Viola Liuzzo.
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