MARCH 7, 1965: SELMA’S “BLOODY SUNDAY” On this day in 1965, demonstrators started a 54-mile march in Selma, Alabama in response to an activist’s murder. They were protesting his death and the unfair state laws and local violence that keep African Americans from voting. Led by SNCC activists John Lewis and Hosea Williams, about 525 peaceful marchers were violently assaulted by state police near the Edmund Pettus Bridge outside Selma. Television networks broadcasted the attacks of “Bloody Sunday” nationwide, creating outrage at the police, and sympathy for the marchers. For more, check out PBS’ archival site for the award-winning series Eyes on the Prize. Photo: Aerial view of marchers crossing the Edmund-Pettus Bridge during the march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965. (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, NYWT&S Collection)
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MARCH 7, 1965: SELMA’S “BLOODY SUNDAY”

On this day in 1965, demonstrators started a 54-mile march in Selma, Alabama in response to an activist’s murder. They were protesting his death and the unfair state laws and local violence that keep African Americans from voting.

Led by SNCC activists John Lewis and Hosea Williams, about 525 peaceful marchers were violently assaulted by state police near the Edmund Pettus Bridge outside Selma.

Television networks broadcasted the attacks of “Bloody Sunday” nationwide, creating outrage at the police, and sympathy for the marchers.

For more, check out PBS’ archival site for the award-winning series Eyes on the Prize.

Photo:
Aerial view of marchers crossing the Edmund-Pettus Bridge during the march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965.

(Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, NYWT&S Collection)

Source: pbs.org

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    This was 1965…only 58 years ago. Don’t tell me racism doesn’t exist anymore.
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    Never forget that for centuries that we fought just to be seen as human beings amd not things. You honor the struggle...