Descriptive video service. Closed-captioned. Series subtitle: America's civil rights years 1954-1965. Originally produced for television broadcast in 1986. Copyright date on videocassette label: 1987. VHS format. Julian Bond.
Summary:
When civil rights protesters marching from Selma to Montogomery, Alabama were assaulted by police, national outrage over the brutality led to President Johnson providing the protection of federal troops, and ultimately to the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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