Bloody Sunday in Selma
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Date
March 07, 1965
Type
National
Author
hjwilson1975
Location
Selma,
Alabama,
United States
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Categories
Social & Civil Rights
Event Details
On March 7, 1965, civil rights demonstrators marching from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, were brutally attacked by state troopers with billy clubs and tear gas on the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
The televised violence, dubbed 'Bloody Sunday', shocked the nation and galvanized public support for the Voting Rights Act of 1965.