Turnaround Tuesday
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Turnaround Tuesday was the second of the 1965 Selma voting-rights marches, marked by a strategic retreat that highlighted federal inaction and helped galvanize support for the Voting Rights Act.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
civil rights march
→
event in the Civil Rights Movement → protest march → |
| characterizedBy | symbolic crossing of Edmund Pettus Bridge → |
| commemoratedBy | civil rights histories and memorial events → |
| follows | Bloody Sunday → |
| hasAlternativeName |
Selma to Montgomery marches
→
surface form: "Second Selma march"
Turnaround Tuesday →
surface form: "Turn-Back Tuesday"
|
| hasContext |
American civil rights movement
→
surface form: "American Civil Rights Movement"
|
| hasCountry |
United States of America
→
surface form: "United States"
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| hasHistoricalSignificance |
demonstrated disciplined nonviolent strategy after state violence
→
key step in securing federal voting-rights protections → |
| hasLocation |
Edmund Pettus Bridge
→
Selma, Alabama → |
| hasOutcome |
helped galvanize support for the Voting Rights Act of 1965
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highlighted federal inaction on voting rights → increased national attention to Selma voting-rights struggle → |
| hasParticipant |
civil rights activists
→
clergy from across the United States → local Black residents of Selma → |
| hasPurpose |
pressure the federal government to protect voting rights
→
protest voter suppression → support African American voting rights → |
| ledBy |
Hosea Williams
→
James Bevel → John Lewis → Martin Luther King Jr. → Ralph Abernathy → |
| legalContext | federal court injunction limiting marches beyond Edmund Pettus Bridge → |
| mediaCoverageBy |
American newspapers
→
national television networks → |
| motivatedBy | violence of Bloody Sunday → |
| movement |
American civil rights movement
→
surface form: "Civil Rights Movement in the United States"
|
| opposedBy | segregationist authorities in Alabama → |
| organizedBy |
Dallas County Voters League
→
Southern Christian Leadership Conference → Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee → |
| partOf | Selma to Montgomery marches → |
| precedes |
Selma to Montgomery marches
→
surface form: "Third Selma to Montgomery march"
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| relatedTo |
Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail
→
Voting Rights Act of 1965 → |
| strategyDirectedBy |
Martin Luther King Jr.
→
SCLC leadership → |
| timePeriod | 1960s → |
| tookPlaceOn | 1965-03-09 → |
| usesTactic |
nonviolent protest
→
strategic retreat → |
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form: "Turn-Back Tuesday"
this entity surface form: "Turnaround Tuesday (March 9, 1965)"