The police chief was fired.
The next week, hundreds marched from Selma to Montgomery; on Sunday, March 7th, dozens of them were injured in attacks by state troopers. That August, the Voting Rights Act was passed.
Less than a year later, the Supreme Court ruled that bus segregation was unconstitutional. Parks died on October 24, 2005, at ninety-two, of natural causes.
Hundreds were hospitalized and killed, and more than a thousand homes and businesses were burned or destroyed. In 2000, a commission formed by the state of Oklahoma suggested that thirty-three million dollars in restitution be paid to the survivors and descendants of victims. No such legislation was passed.
Their graves lie across the country, often unmarked; some scholars have found them by looking for periwinkle, a common burial plant in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
The images would be reproduced and circulated around the nation, further fuelling the abolitionist movement.
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