election laws from state to state prevents many from voting. political machines disenfranchise others by downright fraud. the negro citizen may go to register only to be told that the day is wrong or the hour is late, or the official in charge is absent. there are five counties in mississippi, each at least 57% negro in which no negroes at all are registered. today marks the beginning of a determined, organized, mobilized campaign to get the right to vote all over this state. martin luther king chooses the city of selma because it has the worst record of any southern city on black voting. we will seek to arouse the conscience of the federal government by marching by the thousands on places of
a bewildering hodgepodge of election laws from state to state prevents many from voting. boss-controlled political machines disenfranchise others by downright fraud. the negro citizen may go to register only to be told that the day is wrong or the hour is late, or the official in charge is absent. there are five counties in mississippi, each at least 57% negro in which no negroes at all are registered. today marks the beginning of a determined, organized, mobilized campaign to get the right to vote all over this state. martin luther king chooses the city of selma because it has the worst record of any southern city on black voting. we will dramatize this whole situation and seek to arouse the
is absent. there are five counties in mississippi, each at least 57% negro in which no negroes at all are registered. today marks the beginning of a determined, organized, mobilized campaign to get the right to vote all over this state. king chooses the city of selma because it has the worst record of any southern city on black voting. we will seek to arouse the conscience of the federal government by marching by the thousands on places of registration all over the city.
voter registration. a hodgepodge of election laws from state to state prevents many from voting. political machines disenfranchise others by downright fraud. the negro citizen may go to register only to be told that the day is wrong or the hour is late, or the official in charge is absent. there are five counties in mississippi, each at least 57% negro in which no negroes at all are registered. today marks the beginning of a determined, organized, mobilized campaign to get the right to vote all over this state. king chooses the city of selma because it has the worst record of any southern city on black voting.