Selma to Montgomery march campsites
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Participants in the Selma to Montgomery march on March 21–25, 1965, utilized four campsites along the route. The march followed a 54-mile (87 km) route along U.S. Highway 80 from Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church in Selma through Lowndes County to the State Capitol in Montgomery. Lowndes County had earned the nickname "Bloody Lowndes" due to anti-Black violence, and was particularly symbolic for the march organizers.[1] Leaders with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) sought Black landowners along the route as sympathetic to the goals of the march. Security was provided by the Alabama National Guard, however some marchers distrusted the White guardsmen, and volunteer security guards also patrolled the camps.[2]