Why was public awareness of the Selma March important?

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protesters attempting to march from Selma to the state capital of Montgomery were met with violent resistance by state and local authorities. helped raise awareness of the difficulty faced by black voters in the South, and the need for a Voting Rights Act, passed later that year.

in griswold v. connecticut (1965), the supreme court ruled that a state's ban on the use of contraceptives violated the right to marital privacy.