However, that didn’t stop a gang of Alabama State Troopers from assembling on the far side of the Edmund Pettus Bridge where they would tear-gas and violently attack the marchers with the batons.
A Birmingham News article on March 8, 1965, by Tom Lankford opened with the line “It was an eerie, unreal scene at the Pettus ...
Standing at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge where hundreds of Foot Soldiers were attacked 60 years ago while ...
Thousands gathered at the foot of the Edmund Pettus bridge to celebrate and memorialize Civil Rights leaders who Marched in ...
In honor of all the sacrifices made on behalf of civil rights foot soldiers 60 years ago, the following 60 events are ...
The Selma to Montgomery March and Bloody Sunday deserve to be remembered for their importance to civil rights in the U.S.
Communities gathered at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, to commemorate 60 years since ‘Bloody Sunday.’ The 1965 encounter between activists and law enforcement was a climax in the Civil ...
The historic city of Selma, Alabama, is preparing to welcome thousands of visitors for the 60th anniversary commemoration of “Bloody Sunday” and the subsequent Selma-to-Montgomery ...
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