They tried to stop people by making them fill out various forms, asking them to count items in jars, or giving them literacy tests. In Dallas county almost no African Americans were registered. They came up with a process to try to register people to vote. The story then flashes back to 2009 where John Lewis is able to shake hands with Barack Obama at his inauguration.īack to 1963, sixty-three protesters had been arrested in Selma, Alabama following the bombing. Diane Nash, her husband James Bevel, and John Lewis came up with a plan to march to the capitol with the goal of forcing the governor out of office and securing the African American people's right to vote. This bombing may have been spawned by Governor George Wallace who had declared segregation forever just two weeks prior to the event. King spoke about the dead children, and he knew the African Americans needed to continue to fight for their rights. These events all occurred in September of 1963 and resulted in the deaths of several African American children. A police officer shot a sixteen-year-old boy and claimed it was an accident. Others drove through the town throwing rocks. Then teenagers who had been at a Klan rally heard about the bombing and shot a thirteen-year-old boy. The third book of the trilogy opens with a scene in a Birmingham church where a bomb hits and several children are killed.
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