Black History Month: Selma-to-Montgomery Marches
March 1965 marked a pivotal time for the U.S. civil rights movement, when the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led demonstrators to protest discrimination against black Americans in Alabama who had been denied the right to vote. The march from Selma to the state capital began three times before the demonstrators were finally able to finish it.
The first attempt took place March 7, 1965, when 600 demonstrators were attacked by state and local police with weapons and tear gas as they reached the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, injuring 17 protesters in what came to be known as “Bloody Sunday.”
It became national news when televisions across the country displayed images of bloodied and severely injured marchers.
more: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/02/black-history-month-selma-to-montgomery-marches/
many pics at the link
