Selma to Montgomery Rights March (1965 : Selma, Ala.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Berea College Selma to Montgomery Oral History Collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 14-14.06
Abstract
Berea students, faculty, and staff, along with many others, had previously participated in a 1964 march on the state capitol in Frankfort to lobby the Kentucky legislature to pass civil rights legislation.
On March 7,1965, a small group of Bereans took part in a King-led march that had to turn back before arriving at Montgomery—during which a white minister from Boston was killed.
The subsequent five-day march of March 21st through the 25th drew more than 25,000 participants. Fifty-eight...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found within 2004
Committee for the March on Montgomery
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: RG 10-10.29
Abstract
On Thursday, March 25, 1965, fifty-eight Berea College student, faculty and staff joined 25,000 other demonstrators in the last phase of the March on Montgomery from Selma, Alabama. The trip made by students and other members of the college was neither officially recognized by the College or endorsed by the Student Association Senate.
Berea's participation in the march was organized by a committee of students which organized in response to a controversial letter from the Associate Dean of...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1965-1989; Other: Majority of material found in 1965
"God Hath Made of One Blood" banner: Berea at the Selma March, 1965
Digital Record
Identifier: Photograph: Berea at the Selma March, 1965
Dates:
1965 March 25