(Activist Amelia Boynton Robinson was brutally beaten by Alabama State Troopers during the march and left to die. She survived and died in 2015 at 110.)
60 years ago today (March 7, 1965)
Bloody Sunday occurred in Selma, Alabama.
600 Unarmed and Peaceful Marchers
(mostly Black Civil Rights demonstrated against the South’s Segregation
Policies – mainly regarding Voting Rights) were attacked by Alabama Local and
State Law Enforcement Officers with billy clubs and tear gas.
The American Public across the
country watched on their Television Screens as innocent Men, Women and Children
were abused, beaten and murdered by the Local Authorities resulting in a Nation-Wide
Outcry.
Later that year, the Voting Rights Act passed, a landmark Federal achievement of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement.
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