Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama (mar 7, 1965 – mar 21, 1965)
Description:
Some 600 civil rights marchers headed east out of Selma on U.S. Route 80. They got only as far as the Edmund Pettus Bridge six blocks away, where state and local lawmen attacked them with billy clubs and tear gas and drove them back into Selma.Added to timeline:
Date:
mar 7, 1965
mar 21, 1965
~ 14 days