On March 25, 1965 more than 20,000 men, women and children arrived on the steps of the Alabama State Capitol building. For 17 days, marchers had traveled from Selma to Montgomery, demanding the right to vote. Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered the speech "How Long, Not Long," before handing the state's governor, George Wallace, a petition insisting that African-Americans in the state of Alabama be granted voting rights.
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