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Bookmark or Share- #OnThisDay: Bloody Sunday | National Museum of African American History ...Today marks the anniversary of Bloody Sunday, which occurred #onthisday in Selma, Alabama, in 1965. The march was named for the 600 marchers attacked on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. It was there that law enforcement officers beat unarmed marchers with billy clubs and sprayed them with tear gas.
- Bloody Sunday: Civil Rights Activists Brutally Attacked in SelmaOn this day 1965, now known as 'Bloody Sunday,' Alabama law enforcement attacked civil rights activists in Selma.
- How Selma’s ‘Bloody Sunday’ Became a Turning Point in ... - HISTORYOn March 7, 1965, when then-25-year-old activist John Lewis led over 600 marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama and faced brutal attacks by oncoming state troopers, footage of...
- Bloody Sunday (1972) - WikipediaBloody Sunday came to be regarded as one of the most significant events of the Troubles because so many civilians were killed by forces of the state, in view of the public and the press. [1] .
- Bloody Sunday: What happened on Sunday 30 January 1972? - BBCThirteen people were shot dead and at least 15 others injured when members of the Army's Parachute Regiment opened fire on civil rights demonstrators in the Bogside - a predominantly Catholic part...
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