Bloody Sunday Selma, March 7, 1965 © FBI Photo Files
Six hundred marchers assembled in Selma on Sunday, March 7, and, led by John Lewis and other SNCC and SCLC activists, crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge over the Alabama River en route to Montgomery. Just short of the bridge, they found their way blocked by Alabama State troopers and local police who ordered them to turn around. When the protesters refused, the officers shot teargas and waded into the crowd, beating the nonviolent protesters with billy clubs and ultimately hospitalizing over fifty people. “Bloody Sunday” was televised around the world. – See more at: http://www.blackpast.org/aah/bloody-sunday-selma-alabama-march-7-1965#sthash.JGyLnWdB.dpuf
Vincenzo & myself in Selma on July 15, 2015 – © Frank H. Jump
