Which of these statements describes the effects of the selma marches? they caused president kennedy to argue for civil rights legislation. they created widespread national sympathy for the civil rights cause. they damaged the reputation of martin luther king, jr., in the national media.

Option: They created widespread national sympathy for the civil rights cause.

Explanation:

The Selma marches were held because of the injustice the African American was facing while registering themselves as voters in Alabama. The march was carried from Selma to Montgomery to demonstrate their injustice by walking 54 miles. This was one of the civil right movement in America, which caused an uproar in the nation, later on, President Lyndon Johnson passed the Voting Rights Act which prohibits discrimination in voting practices.

after the civil war, and with the termination of slavery, the south was faced with a big problem; what was supposed to happen and how they were supposed to deal with the freedom and the rights that black people and freed slaves had gained as a result of the north defeating the south and forcing the end of slavery. first, most, if not all, of the workforce of the south came from slaves and they did not have an option to replace the loss of said workforce. second, particularly in the south, people were convinced that black people were lesser, less intelligent, less capable and less smart than whites. this posed a huge problem for them. also, southerners were faced with another issue; freed slaves now had a say in how their lives would be lived and the right to politically choose the way they would be governed. people in the south did not want to accept this, none of this and this opposition and the conflicts that arose from it, not to mention the afereffects of the war, forced the congress of the time to enact and enforce the reconstruction plans that had been proposed by president andrew johnson.

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