Today in History: ‘Bloody Sunday’ in Selma for civil rights movement
- Posted on March 7, 2026
- By Chicago Tribune
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Today in History: ‘Bloody Sunday’ in Selma for civil rights movement
On March 7, 1965, a march by over 500 civil rights demonstrators was violently broken up at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama; state troopers and a sheriff’s posse fired tear gas and beat …
