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On Saturday, March 6, 1965, the segregationist governor of Alabama declared that a

planned march for voting rights from Selma to Montgomery on US Highway 80 was

illegal and authorized his state troopers to use whatever measures are necessary

to prevent a march.

And it be detrimental to your safety to continue this march and I'm saying that this is an unlawful

assembly.

You are to disperse, you are ordered to disperse, home, or go to your church. This march will not continue. And so they would, for a time.

But in their violent attempt on a March Sunday to end a movement to make an American promise real,

they would only fuel the fires of progress.

Out of evil came good, out of darkness, light, out of anguish, justice, the day was called Bloody Sunday.

I'm John Meacham, and this is Hope Through History, episode 5, a battle for justice.

There's going to be groups of people within the movement who want more than just

demonstration.

He was hoping for some kind of issue that would convert undecided Americans to the view that this is something that we have to do right now.

Every ordinary people stood before the forces of the state and the state literally bulldoze them. At the midpoint of the 1960s, the focus of the Black Freedom Struggle had moved to voting rights.

World War II had signaled the possibilities of a new era in race relations in a nation long defined by slavery and segregation.

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