Because They Marched: The People's Campaign for Voting Rights that Changed America -- Russell Freedman

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/280977 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Because They Marched: The People's Campaign for Voting Rights that Changed America Author: Russell Freedman Narrator: Rodney Gardiner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 47 minutes Release date: January 17, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: In the early 1960s, tired of reprisals for attempting to register to vote, Selma's black community began to protest. The struggle received nationwide attention when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led a voting rights march in January, 1965, and was attacked by a segregationist. In February, the shooting of an unarmed demonstrator by an Alabama state trooper inspired a march from Selma to the state capital of Montgomery. The march got off to a horrific start on March 7 as law officers attacked peaceful demonstrators. Broadcast throughout the world, the violence attracted widespread outrage and spurred demonstrators to complete the march at any cost. On March 25, after several setbacks, protesters completed the fifty-four-mile march to a cheering crowd of 25,000 supporters.