Support for Selma Demonstrators in 1965 In the recent showdown in Selma, Alabama, over Negro voting rights, have you tended to side more with
But despite all these reservations, views about what occurred in Selma were another matter. By a 48% to 21% margin, a Harris poll in May 1965 found its respondents saying they sided more with the civil rights groups involved than with the state of Alabama. Not unexpectedly, virtually all of the black respondents sided more with the demonstrators (95%), but the balance of opinion among whites was also clearly with them rather than with the state of Alabama (46% to 21%).
Support for Selma Demonstrators in 1965  | In the recent showdown in Selma, Alabama, over Negro voting  | rights, have you tended to side more with  | State of Alabama  | Civil rights groups  | Total  | 21%  | 48%  | Blacks  | 0%  | 95%  | Whites  | 21%  | 46%  | Source: Harris survey, May 1965  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER 