On March 7, 1965, police attacked 525 civil rights demonstrators who had taken part in the march between Selma and Montgomery, Alabama. The march was supposed to allow blacks to vote. The police used tear gas and charged into the crowd on horseback; more than 50 protesters were injured. The day of the protest was called “Bloody Sunday,” and it was broadcast across America on national TV and newspapers and Americans were very angry at how the authorities handled it. Even though people were injured on Bloody Sunday, 8 days after Bloody Sunday President Lyndon B. Johnson introduced a bill to Congress that would become the Black Voting Rights Act of 1965. ("The New York Times")Millions of people around the world The United States was watching TV on a Sunday evening when the television program was interrupted by African Americans being beaten with clubs and thrown with tear gas. Six hundred people were attacked by police and law enforcement and were wearing riot uniforms. ABC was showing a movie and then it was cut and it showed injured African Americans. Most people have never heard of Selma, Alabama, but after March 7th, no one will forget it. (“National Park Service”) Those who asserted that the right to vote was a consequence of Selma also asserted that events in Birmingham, Alabama, in April and May 1963 produced the Civil Rights Act in 1964. In more than one case On some occasions civil rights blacks were led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in marches and were met with outrageous tactics by law enforcement. In the Selma march the protesters were always peaceful, but officers used weapons against them even though the Selma protesters never did anything harmful. On March 7, one day after Bloody Sunday, dozens of speakers said that t...... half of the document ......islative/resources/education/voting-rights/johnson.html>.Garrow, David. Protest in Selma: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1978. 135-147. Print.√Lewis, John. walking with the wind. 1st. New York: 1999. 335-362. Print."March 7, 1965 | Civil rights demonstrators attacked in Selma."The New York Times. (2012): n. page. Network. April 16, 2014. “March from Selma to Montgomery.” Wikipedia. NP, April 22, 2014. Web. April 22, 2014. “The Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March: Shaking the Nation's Conscience.” National Park Service. nd page. Network. April 16. 2014. .