![]() Freedom workers are murdered, but sharecroppers learn to read, dare to vote, and build their own political party. The escalation of the war severs the cooperation of King and President Lyndon Johnson after a collaboration that culminated in the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act.Īfter Selma, young pilgrims led by Stokely Carmichael take the movement into adjacent Lowndes County, Alabama, where not a single member of the black majority has tried to vote in the twentieth century. The marches from Selma coincide with the first landing of large U.S. ![]() The quest to cross Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge engages the conscience of the world, strains the civil rights coalition, and embroils King in negotiations with all three branches of the U.S. Branch opens with the authorities' violent suppression of a voting-rights march in Alabama on March 7, 1965. ![]() In At Canaan's Edge, King and his movement stand at the zenith of America's defining story, one decade into an epic struggle for the promises of democracy. ![]()
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