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Mar

TROOPS SENT FOR CIVIL RIGHTS MARCH

Johnson condemns violence against Negro demonstrators - UPI Archives

On March 20, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson notified
Alabama’s Governor George Wallace that he will use federal
authority to call up the Alabama National Guard in order to
supervise a planned civil rights march from Selma to
Montgomery.

File:Martin Luther King, Jr. and Lyndon Johnson 3.jpg
President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Martin Luther
King, Jr.
   

Selma March - LBJ, Voting Rights, 1965 | Britannica

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