Bloody Sunday

State troopers and sheriff's deputies attack John Lewis and other demonstrators on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma on March 7, 1965, during the Selma to Montgomery March. The day quickly came to be known as "Bloody Sunday."

Bloody Sunday civil rights march on Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma
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Bloody Sunday civil rights march on Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma