March 7, 1965 The first Selma to Montgomery march for civil rights.

The televised images of the “Bloody Sunday” attack galvanized support for the Civil Rights Movement and on March 24 approximately 8,000 marchers successfully completed the 54 mile march to Montgomery, protected by 2,000 soldiers of the United States Army and 1,900 members of the Alabama National Guard under federal command. In 1996, the Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights Trail, a U.S. National Historic Trail, was created by Congress as an original route of national significance in American history.