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Washington, d.c., black people and white people, people of color couldn't be seated together on the bus leaving the nation's capital. to travel through virginia, north carolina, south carolina, georgia, alabama, mississippi, we were on our way to new orleans to test a decision of the united states supreme court. well, on the way we were beaten and jailed. this is may 1961. my se on that trip was a young white gentleman. we arrived in a little town called rock hill, south carolina, and tried to enter a so-called white waiting room. a group from the klan attacked us and left us lying in a pool

President johnson signed it into law. dr. king met with him and said, mr. president, we need a voting exact signed. the president just said i just signed a civil rights act. we don't have the votes in congress to get a voter rights act passed, if you want it, make me do it. so we intensified our efforts in selma. on sunday, march 7, 1965, a group of us, about 600 of us, left the brown chapel ame church to walk 50 miles from selma to montgomery, to dramatize to the nation and to the world that people of color wanted to register to vote. there were young children, young men and young women your ...