Let us march on ballot boxes until all over Alabama
God's children will be able to walk the earth in decency and
honor.
"For all of us today the battle is in our hands. The road ahead
is not altogether a smooth one. There are no broad highways to
lead us easily and inevitably to quick solutions. We must keep
going."
Later that evening, a white woman from Detroit was shot and
killed on the highway between Montgomery and Selma as she
was ferrying marchers back home.
President Johnson sent a new voting rights bill to Congress which
gave sweeping powers to the Attorney General's office allowing
it to send federal registrars into localities to register voters
when local officials were either unable or unwilling to do so. In
the course of a television appearance in which Johnson announced
this legislation and in which he expressed his own indignation at
the events in Selma and Montgomery, he acknowledged the impact
of demonstrations in pushing both the country and the Congress
into taking positive action to remedy injustices. He implied
that, while he did not always approve of the methods used, the
demonstrators had done a positive service for justice and for the
country.
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