Remembering Bloody Sunday
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Β CHARLOTTE, NC — Saturday marks the 50th anniversary of a now-infamous civil rights march across Alabama. Β It’s known as Bloody Sunday.
It began on March 7, 1965 as a non-violent march for voting rights, but it became one of the most violent days of the civil rights movement. Β Six hundred demonstrators planned to march 54 miles from Selma to Montgomery. Β John Lewis, now a Congressman from Georgia, helped to lead the march.
“As we crossed the Edmund Pettis Bridge, we were met by state troopers who shot us with tear gas, beat us with night sticks and trampled us with horses. Β I was hit on the head and suffered a concussion on the bridge,” said Lewis.
Lewis and 16 others were taken to hospitals. Β Their courage is celebrated in movies like Selma. Β President Obama will deliver a speech at that bridge in Slema on Saturday.
