And he pointed to the spot where they almost killed him, fractured his skull and almost killed him. What was the Selma march all about? It was all about this. There were 15,000 black people living in Selma, Alabama. Do you know how many were registered to vote? 335. 335 out of 15,000. What was wrong with that? They couldn't pass the literacy test. They couldn't pass the questions that John Kennedy asked nominees for the federal courts. (01:31–01:40)
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Asserts that only 335 out of 15,000 black residents in Selma, Alabama, were registered to vote.
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