Preserving the past: 米兰体育 13 video shows the brutal events of Bloody Sunday in Selma
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Sixty years ago on March 7, hundreds of Foot Soldiers in the Civil Rights Movement were violently beaten and gassed by Alabama State Troopers while marching across Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge in a brutal event that would come to be known as "Bloody Sunday."
Witness important moments of history and the Civil Rights Movement in the archival video above.
Organized by Alabama native John Lewis, the plan was for demonstrators to peacefully march the 50-mile stretch from Selma to Alabama's capital in Montgomery. It was to demand their right to vote and protest the death of Jimmie Lee Jackson, who was shot and killed by law enforcement the month before during a march in Marion. 锘�
Bloody Sunday saw 58 people treated for injuries, with more than a dozen hospitalized, including Lewis, who suffered a skull fracture.锘�
米兰体育 13's cameras were there in Selma and captured the horrific display of brutality, that would shock the nation, spawning further protests and eventually leading to the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Learn about the Alabama civil rights icon who lived 110 years fighting for voting rights below.
