10 h 17 min, 7 mars 1965 ans - Bloody Sunday: Selma, Alabama. A march done by black citizens is taking place in support of voting rights
when they are stopped at the Edmund Pettus Bridge by a police blockade.
50 marchers are hospitalised after police uses tear gas, whips, and clubs against them.
Catalyst for pushing through the voting rights act five months later.
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LITERATURE SIDE BY SIDE WITH THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
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