"It started in Selma" -- Lowndes Interpretive Center, Lowndes Co. AL
N 32° 16.242 W 086° 43.668
16S E 525635 N 3570474
The sign of history outside of the Lowndes County Interpretive Center explains he genesis of the Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March
Waymark Code: WMWG9P
Location: Alabama, United States
Date Posted: 09/01/2017
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This sign of history outside of the Lowndes County interpretive center along the Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March National Historic Trail explains what triggered the the Selma-Montgomery Voting Rights March.
The sign reads as follows:
"IT STARTED IN SELMA
At times history and state meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man’s unending search for freedom. So it wasn in Lexington and Concord. So it was a century ago at Appomattox. So it was last week in Selma, Alabama.” President Lyndon B. Johnson, March 15, 1965
The 1950s and 1960s, African-Americans intensified their efforts to rise up and demand release from their oppressors. This rising was part of the Civil Rights Movement, and its leaders were many. The Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail represents a brief but important moment in this long struggle. It represents a fight to reaffirm in our country that “all men are created equal” and that all citizens are guaranteed the right to vote.
It started in the small quiet southern town of Selma, Alabama, or hope, through tragedy and conviction, was brought to a nation. In Selma a black community simply had had enough. Through their momentum the dream of the right to vote rolled to the steps of the Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery and on to the front door of the White House. On August 6, 1965, the dream was signed into law as the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and it changed the world."
Group that erected the marker: National Park Service
URL of a web site with more information about the history mentioned on the sign: [Web Link]
Address of where the marker is located. Approximate if necessary:
64 Landmark Drive (US 80)
Hayneville, AL
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