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

$ 685.87

Availability: 51 in stock
  • Original: Authentic
  • Value 13: Edmund Pettus Bridge
  • Value 8: Civil Rights Movement
  • Black Power Movement: Black Liberation Movement
  • Value 5: Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
  • Modified Item: No
  • Value 14: Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
  • Value 21: Black Belt, Dallas County, Al
  • Martin Luther King: SNCC
  • Type: Button
  • Students For Democratic Soceity: SDS
  • Value 12: Bloody Sunday
  • Value 3: Mississippi
  • Year: 1965
  • Theme: Political
  • Condition: Please see item description and photos for further details.
  • Value 15: George Wallace
  • Value: Alabama
  • Value 11: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
  • Value 1: Martin Luther King Jr
  • Value 2: Dallas County Voters League
  • Black Civil Rights: Civil Rights Movement
  • Value 6: Freedom Riders
  • Value 20: DCVL
  • Material: Metal & Paper
  • Signed: No

    Description

    DETAILS:
    Original pinback button issued by
    Dallas County Voters League
    (
    DCVL
    ) for their 1965 voter 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
    organized a series of marches protesting the fact that despite the passage by Congress of the
    1964 Civil Rights Act,
    Governor George Wallace was still intentionally defying the law and engaging in violence in order to prevent blacks from voting. Wallace saw the campaign as personal threat not just against segregation but also to his continued reign in Montgomery. Along with his segregationist allies, he ordered a stringent police crackdown on all voting rights demonstrators.
    The first victim of this crack down was Jimmie Lee, an African American civil rights activist, who while unarmed and participating in a peaceful voting rights march in his city, was attacked and beaten by State police along with white vigilantes. Jackson died eight days later of his injuries in the hospital. In direct defiance of Wallace, the
    DCVL
    vowed to not be intimidated. They announced an even larger protest and demanded Wallace's immediate removal. This response, only further enraged Wallace who declared that all such protests 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 later by heavily armed Alabama State police officers as they attempted to cross the county line on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The day's events would become known as "Bloody Sunday." This event is considered by most historians to be the turning point in the American Civil Rights Movements and the beginning of the end of Wallace's reign of terror.
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    BLACK CIVIL RIGHTS
    Circa 1950-1970
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