March 7
1965
Civil rights advocates attempted to march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama to promote voting rights for blacks. Enforcing an order by then Governor George Wallace, the march was broken up by state troopers and a sheriff’s posse who used tear gas, nightsticks and whips.
1988
A Federal Court ruled in Atlanta, Georgia that a peace group must have the same access to students at high school career days as military recruiters.
1988
ctivists sit in to protest refusal of the Albany (New York) City Council to pass legislation prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
1996
500 women march on the National Palace in Guatemala City.in a commemoration of state violence against women.
Deanna Dee-Dee Taylor 