March 7 1965 – Civil Rights Activists Are Beaten by Police in the Bloody Sunday March

March 7 1965 – Civil Rights Activists Are Beaten by Police in the Bloody Sunday MarchRate this post *Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Just days after the death of a protester shot by Alabama policeman, in Marion, some 600 African-Americans gathered in Selma for a 54-mile march to the capital of Montgomery. After crossing over the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965, the civil rights activists were met by a line of state troopers with orders to stop the protest after a few blocks of walking. The officers did so with extreme force, firing tear gas into the crowd and advancing with batons to beat them back — shocking images […]