Selma Alabama Bloody Sunday 1965 Dallas County Voters League George Wallace 1457 for Sale

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Selma Alabama Bloody Sunday 1965 Dallas County Voters League George Wallace 1457 For Sale

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Selma Alabama Bloody Sunday 1965 Dallas County Voters League George Wallace 1457:
$1999.00

DETAILS: Original pinback button issued byDallas County Voters League (DCVL) for their 1965voter registration protest march in Selma, Alabama on March 7, 1965 in what would later become known as Bloody Sunday. Reads, GROW (Get Rid Of Wallace). Circa 1965.Measures 1\" inch. Rare.

BACKGROUND: As part of its 1965 voter registration campaign, the Dallas County Voters League DCVL organizeda series of marches protesting the fact that despite the passage by Congress of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, GovernorGeorge Wallace was still intentionally defying the lawand engaging in violencein order to preventblacks fromvoting. Wallace saw the campaignas personal threat not just against segregation but also to hiscontinued reigninMontgomery.Along with his segregationist allies, heordereda stringent police crackdown on all voting rights demonstrators.

The first victim of this crack down was Jimmie Lee,an African American civil rights activist,whowhile unarmed and participating in a peaceful voting rights march in his city,was attacked and beaten by State policealong with white vigilantes. Jackson died eight days later of his injuries in the hospital. In direct defiance of Wallace,the DCVL vowedto not be intimidated. Theyannounced an even largerprotest and demanded Wallace\'s immediate removal.This response,only further enraged Wallace who declared that all suchprotests were illegal and ordered the Alabama State Police to bring an immediate stop to them.

On March 7, 1965, in Selma, Alabama, a peaceful 600-person civil rights demonstration organized by the DCVL, commenced in Downtown Selma. They were attacked a shot time laterby heavily armed Alabama State police officers as they attempted to cross the county lineon the Edmund Pettus Bridge.The day\'s events would become known as\"Bloody Sunday.\" This event is considered by most historians to betheturning point in theAmerican Civil RightsMovements and the beginning of the end ofWallace\'s reign of terror.

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BLACK CIVIL RIGHTS

Circa 1950-1970

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