Bloody Sunday: Activists Shot In Alabama #onthisday #history #tragedy
On this day, March 7, 1965, in Selma, Alabama, a peaceful civil rights march led by activists, including John Lewis and Martin Luther King Jr., was violently confronted by state troopers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The brutal attack, known as Bloody Sunday, shocked the nation and galvanized support for the Voting Rights Act of […]