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About 3,200 marchers left Montgomery on Sunday, March 21, 1965. Rev. Ralph Abernathy and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel were in the front row with King. They walked 12 miles per day and slept in fields nearby. Protection was provided by the federal government in the form of military troops and the National Guard. Many people joined the march as it went along. Their strength had increased to approximately 25,000 by the time they reached the capital on March 25, four days after the marchers arrived. They had drawn thousands of people from all over the country to their moral campaign.
The Selma events helped to increase public support for this cause. Later that year, the U.S. Congress passed and supported the Voting Rights Bill of 1965. This bill was signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson. It allowed federal oversight and enforcement to vote rights for all citizens of any state or jurisdiction where there was discrimination against certain groups, such as ethnic minorities.
Nearly 11,000 people of color had registered to vote in Selma by March 1966, one year after the Selma–to-Montgomery march. 12,000 people of color were also registered. The number of registered voters rose to nearly 11,000 by November when Wilson Baker, the Dallas County Sheriff, was elected to replace Jim Clark.
Seven years later, however, blacks were still unable to elect a city councilor candidate. The entire city elected the council members at large, while the majority of white voters had won the elections. The council decided to elect its ten members from single-member districts after being threatened with a lawsuit under Section 230 of the Voting Rights Act. Five African-American Democrats were elected as city council members, with Frederick Douglas Reese (activist) becoming a significant power in the city. Five white candidates were elected to the council.
