On 25 March 1965, Martin Luther King led thousands of nonviolent demonstrators to the steps of the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, after a 5-day, 54-mile march from Selma, Alabama, where local African Americans, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference had been campaigning for voting rights.
The March ended shortly after noon at the foot of the Capitol steps, and as people from all over the nation stood facing the statehouse, Dr. King assured them:
"We are not about to turn around. We, are on the move now. we are on the move and no wave of racism can stop us."
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