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    Voter Registration Efforts in Alabama

    Even after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 forbade discrimination in voting on the basis of race, efforts by civil rights organizations such as the Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) to register Black voters met with fierce resistance in southern states such as Alabama.

    But the civil rights movement was not easily deterred. In early 1965, Martin Luther King Jr. and the SCLC decided to make Selma, located in Dallas County, Alabama, the focus of a Black voter registration campaign.

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    King had won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, and his profile would help draw international attention to the events that followed.

    Alabama Governor George Wallace was a notorious opponent of desegregation, and the local county sheriff in Dallas County had led a steadfast opposition to Black voter registration drives.

    As a result, only 2 percent of Selma’s eligible Black voters (about 300 out of 15,000