Selma to Montgomery: A Struggle for Voting Rights

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“The Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March: Shaking the Conscience of the Nation” by the National Park Service (NPS) as a part of their “Teaching with Historic Places Lesson Plans” series, is an example of one such article.
The article begins by describing that, on the night of Sunday, March 7th, 1965, millions watched as their regularly scheduled television programs were interrupted with disturbing images of unarmed African American men and women being brutally assaulted by state troopers and mounted deputies dressed in full riot equipment with nightsticks in a cloud of teargas during a peaceful march from the small town of Selma, Alabama to Montgomery, the state capital, to protect the murder of an individual and the obstruction of their constitutional right to vote; the article provides an instance of this interruption by detailing that the broadcast of the movie “Judgement at Nuremberg” was interrupted on …show more content…

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led a crowd of 2,500 people onto the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where they faced a thong of Troopers, who surprisingly moved aside to let the marches pass, but instead of passing, King held a small prayer session before leading the marchers back to the Brown Chapel A.M.E Church, is not mentioned in the article. Instead, the article details the events of March 7th in the first paragraph, and then what happened 8 days later in the second, rather than detailing the events of the first march in the first paragraph and then the events of the second march in the second paragraph. By not including the existence of the second march in the article, the article does not offer a full account of the Selma marches to the

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