FL H9105

Recognizes March 7, 2015, as the 50th anniversary of the March on Selma and the Voting Rights Act of 1965

Commemorates approximately 600 voting rights marchers led by John Lewis who gathered on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on March 7, 1965, and were brutally assaulted by state troopers in an event that became known as Bloody Sunday

Honors the bravery of marchers who conducted a second peaceful march two days later with more than 2,000 participants, and a third march from March 21-25, 1965, escorted by the Alabama National Guard and federal marshals that grew to approximately 50,000 marchers at the Alabama State Capitol

Acknowledges that the marchers' sacrifice prompted President Lyndon B. Johnson to propose federal voting rights legislation on March 15, 1965, leading to Congress passing the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which was signed into law on August 6, 1965