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3 days ago · The event became known as Bloody Sunday. Law enforcement beat Boynton unconscious, and the media publicized worldwide a picture of her lying wounded on the bridge. The second march took place two days later but King cut it short as a federal court issued a temporary injunction against further marches.
May 8, 2024 · Selma March, political march from Selma, Alabama, to the state’s capital, Montgomery, that occurred March 21–25, 1965. Led by Martin Luther King, Jr. , the march was the culminating event of several tumultuous weeks during which demonstrators twice attempted to march but were stopped, once violently, by local police.
4 days ago · Newsman's photos of Bloody Sunday captured a pivotal moment in Civil Rights history. By BRIAN PIPER Contributing writer. May 27, 2024. 1 min to read. On March 7, 1965 600 activists gathered to ...
May 15, 2024 · Embed from Getty Images. Online Sources: Bloody Sunday - Selma to Montgomery March (1965) ... Documents From Selma Alabama and the March to Montgomery 1963-1965 (CRMV
May 17, 2024 · Selma is probably best known as the site of the infamous “Bloody Sunday” attack on civil rights marchers at Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965, and the subsequent Selma-to-Montgomery March. In 2000, the city elected its first African American mayor, marking a positive change from those turbulent days.
May 17, 2024 · The center participates in the annual Bridge Crossing Jubilee, which takes place around the anniversary of Bloody Sunday and commemorates the events of that day. Nearby is the Brown Chapel AME Church that served as a gathering place for marchers on the morning of Bloody Sunday, March 7, 1865.
May 10, 2024 · He and John Lewis led the “ Bloody Sunday ” march in Selma, Alabama, on March 7, 1965, during which marchers seeking voting rights for African Americans were tear-gassed and brutally beaten, and he was present when King was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1968.
