| Name | Selma To Montgomery National Historic Trail |
| Brief Description | National Park |
| Type | Attraction |
| Category | Alabama National Park |
| Description | The climax to the decades-long voting rights crusade in Alabama erupted in March 1965 as Civil Rights activists converged on Selma, Alabama. The final push to achieve a nationwide solution to the disenfranchisement of African Americans came as the result of three strategically planned marches, the first of which took place on March 7. Nearly 500 marchers proceeded through the streets of Selma and across the Edmund Pettus Bridge where they were faced by scores of Alabama State troopers. The troopers attacked the non-violent marchers, leaving many of them bloodied and severely injured, on a date forever ensconced in history as |
| CSZ | Lowndes County, AL |
| Phone 1 | (334) 877-1984 |
| Handicapped Accessible | No |
| Website | www.nps.gov/semo/index.htm |
| Last Updated | 1/23/2013 |
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