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Feb 21, 2021 · A peaceful march in protest of racial injustice set out from Selma, Ala., on March 7, 1965, but was met with violent resistance from local law enforcement in an event that became known as "Bloody ...
Jul 30, 2015 · The statement made to the FBI by activists John Lewis and Stella Davis, who were both injured during the events of Bloody Sunday, are on display in the East Rotunda Gallery of the National Archives Building in Washington, D.C. from July 30 through August 26, 2015. Statement of John Lewis regarding Selma’s “Bloody Sunday,” March 8, 1965.
Mar 7, 2022 · SELMA, Ala. -- March 7, 1965, will forever be etched in American history as "Bloody Sunday." On that fateful day, 600 civil rights activists gathered in Selma, Alabama, to begin a 52-mile march to ...
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Mar 7, 2012 · See all Historic Headlines ». On March 7, 1965, state troopers and a sheriff’s posse in Selma, Ala., attacked 525 civil rights demonstrators taking part in a march between Selma and Montgomery, the state capital. The march was organized to promote black voter registration and to protest the killing of a young black man, Jimmie Lee Jackson ...
Dec 11, 2023 · The Selma Marches were a series of three marches that took place in 1965 from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. These marches were organized to protest the blocking of Black Americans' right to vote by the systematic racist structure of the Jim Crow South. With the leadership of groups such as the Dallas County Voters League (DCVL), the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and the ...
Mar 3, 2024 · The Rev. Al Sharpton, Vice President Kamala Harris Attorney Ben Crump and the second gentleman of the United States Douglas Emhoff walk with hundreds of people across the Edmund Pettus Bridge with others commemorating the 59th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday voting rights march in 1965, Sunday, March 3, 2024, in Selma, Ala. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
First March: Bloody Sunday The first march took place on March 7, 1965. Marchers filed out of Brown Chapel AME and tried to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge, heading west out of Selma and toward Montgomery. Sheyann Webb was 8 years old. She was the youngest marcher that day.
