Dallas County Voters League

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The Dallas County Voters League was a local civil rights organization in Selma, Alabama, that played a key role in Black voter registration efforts and helped catalyze the Selma voting rights campaign.

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Dallas County Voters League canonical 3

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Predicate Object
instanceOf civil rights organization
local political organization
voting rights organization
activeIn 1960s
Selma to Montgomery marches
surface form: Selma voting rights campaign
advocatedFor elimination of literacy tests for voting
end to arbitrary voter registration barriers
federal protection of voting rights
associatedWithEvent Bloody Sunday (March 7, 1965)
surface form: Bloody Sunday (1965)

Selma to Montgomery marches
collaboratedWith Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
local Black churches in Selma
country United States of America
surface form: United States
ethos nonviolent protest
focus African American voting rights
Black voter registration
desegregation of voting
goal end discriminatory voter registration practices
increase Black voter registration in Dallas County
secure enforcement of the Fifteenth Amendment
historicalSignificance helped transform local grievances into a national civil rights issue
key local base for the Selma voting rights movement
influenced passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965
locatedIn Alabama
Dallas County, Alabama
location Selma, Alabama
movement American civil rights movement
notableFor helping catalyze the Selma to Montgomery marches
organizing Black voter registration drives in Dallas County
role in Selma voting rights campaign
opposedBy local white supremacist power structure
segregationist officials in Dallas County
represents African American community in Dallas County, Alabama
usedMethod coordination with national civil rights groups
legal challenges to discriminatory practices
registration drives
voter education

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Selma to Montgomery marches organizer Dallas County Voters League
Turnaround Tuesday organizedBy Dallas County Voters League
Amelia Boynton Robinson memberOf Dallas County Voters League