The report makes specific mention of the co-optation of the Black Panther Party, (BPP), the Student National Coordinating Committee, (SNCC), Stokely Carmichael, and the Nation of Islam.
The marches were in support of the efforts in Selma to gain voting rights for African-American citizens of the area an effort that had begun in 1963 under the direction of the Dallas County Voters League and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).