 from the near certainty of a new voting law, which could have a more profound effect in the South than the entire 1964 Civil Rights Act, to the active participation of Catholic clergy, nuns, and official church representatives in the demonstrations, to the President of the United States saying, we shall overcome, to Congress and a national TV audience. But victory in the Second Battle of Selma was also the fruit of a decade of struggle in the South and across the nation,