Letter to House Judiciary Committee

Title: Letter to House Judiciary Committee
Description: Mrs. E. Jackson wrote to the House Judiciary Committee the day after Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama. She was reacting to scenes of police brutality during a voting rights march that many Americans witnessed on television news programs in favor of voting rights and denouncing the horrid attacks from that day. Mrs. E. Jackson was writing from Brooklyn about events she witnessed on the news that occurred in Alabama. Bloody Sunday caused a national push for civil rights and activists took advantage of this to advocate for the Voting Rights Act.
Creator: Mrs. E. Jackson See all items with this value
Publisher: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
Date: March 8, 1965 See all items with this value
Type: Letter
Format: Paper, ink
Subject: Voting Rights See all items with this value; Bloody Sunday See all items with this value; Selma, Alabama See all items with this value; Brooklyn, New York See all items with this value; Civil rights movement See all items with this value; Selma to Montgomery march See all items with this value; Congress See all items with this value; Voting Rights Act See all items with this value
Temporal Coverage: 1965
Rights: No known copyright restrictions

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