Voting Rights Act

From Selma to Montgomery: Voting Rights Written in Blood — How 'Bloody Sunday' of 1965 Changed America

The 'Bloody Sunday' that took place on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama on March 7, 1965, became the decisive catalyst for the passage of the Voting Rights Act. Two weeks later, on March 22, Senate hearings on President Lyndon Johnson's Voting Rights Act intensified, and the course of history began to shift.