Bloody Sunday March 17, 1965

Artist: Madison Riggins
School: Forest Avenue, Montgomery

"Bloody Sunday March 7, 1965"

1965 March 7: Six-hundred demonstrators make the first of three attempts to march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery to demand removal of voting restrictions on black Americans. Attacked by state and local law enforcement officers as they crossed Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge, the marchers fled back into the city. The dramatic scene was captured on camera and broadcast across the nation later that Sunday, causing a surge of support for the protestors.



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Created: October 12, 2007
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