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as clouds of tear gas wafted around the Edmund Pettus Bridge. On March 7, 1965 — a day that would become known as "Bloody Sunday" — 600 marchers heading east out of Selma topped the graceful ...
His death led to protests that went on for weeks, and culminated on March 7, 1965. That day became known as "Bloody Sunday," when activists attempted to peacefully march across the Edmund Pettus ...
This is why MadameNoire is looking at the forgotten Black women of Bloody Sunday. As we commemorate the 60th anniversary of the incident on March 7, 1965, it would be remiss not to mention seven ...
March 7, 1965. (AP Photo, File) In 1965, the Bloody Sunday marchers led by John Lewis and Hosea Williams walked in pairs across the Selma bridge headed toward Montgomery. “We had steeled our ...
SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Charles Mauldin was near the front of a line of voting rights marchers walking in pairs across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on March 7, 1965. The marchers were ...
Bloody Sunday, the day when hundreds of people peacefully marched from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, yet were met with violence, occurred 60 years ago (March 7, 1965) today. In the decades since ...
Correspondent photos / Sean Barron Those who attended a program Sunday at the Tyler History Center in Youngstown to commemorate the 60th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday” on March 7, 1965, in ...
It's been 60 years since Bloody Sunday, when a peaceful civil rights ... What happened in Selma, Alabama on March 7, 1965 changed our country. The brutal images on television could be seen ...
In the moments before the start of the first Selma to Montgomery March on March 7, 1965, Andrew Young gathered ... turned into what became known as “Bloody Sunday,” as Alabama state troopers ...
The 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday was remembered in Little Rock ... That was 60 years ago on March 7, 1965. A peaceful ...
George Wallace, break up a demonstration march in Selma, Ala., March 7, 1965, on what became known as "Bloody Sunday." Credit: AP/Uncredited “At this moment, faced with trouble on every side ...
on March 7, 1965. The marchers were protesting white ... Selma on Sunday marked the 60th anniversary of the clash that became known as Bloody Sunday. The attack shocked the nation and galvanized ...