Bloody Sunday

BLOODY SUNDAY

The Selma-to-Montgomery March for voting rights ended three weeks--and three events--that represented the political and emotional peak of the modern civil rights movement. On "Bloody Sunday," March 7, 1965, 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. Two days later on March 9, Martin Luther King, Jr., led a "symbolic" march to the bridge. Then civil rights leaders sought court protection for a third, full-scale march from Selma to the state capitol in Montgomery. Federal District Court Judge Frank M. Johnson, Jr., weighed the right of mobility against the right to march and ruled in favor of the demonstrators. "The law is clear that the right to petition one's government for the redress of grievances may be exercised in large groups...," said Judge Johnson, "and these rights may be exercised by marching, even along public highways." On Sunday, March 21, about 3,200 marchers set out for Montgomery, walking 12 miles a day and sleeping in fields. By the time they reached the capitol on Thursday, March 25, they were 25,000-strong. Less than five months after the last of the three marches, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965--the best possible redress of grievances. Courtesy of http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/al4.htm

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• Bloody Sunday
• Selma
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• Martin Luther King Jr.
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• selma alabama
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[armanifelder1998]

This song made me start to cry. Because i thought about all the kids who do bad in school and take it for a joke. Because this is what our ancestors had to go through.

[sijag68]

wow,!! fantastic, that makes so much sense. I am just surprised more people have not had this awesome experience! Cool song too. :)

[DreaminBlackness]

Wow... why haven't I heard this on the radio?? Oh thats right, waka flocka and soulja boy was on. -_-

[cruiscinlan]

i'm 51 years old. my dad and my grandparents were quite bigotted. i'm really grateful for these actions because they showed me as a little girl that folks is folks. i still love my bigotted family members, and i pity them. i am so grateful my kids have grown up in a time and place where colour really is invisble and that i don't have to worry about them or myself quite as much as i would have years ago just cause they're brown and i'm white. stand up when you see injustice. fight aint over

[sijag68]

it is fuckin terrible what black people have to put up with, and I am speaking from a white point of view, Martin Luther was the best, and I admire him, he is a great role model for us all. God bless him and us all we all bleed the same blood!! Racists. deserve to be shot! . why can not we all be friends, it really bugs me.!!!!!

[TheNameTrebor]

A lot of the pictures weren't from the Selma - Birmingham march, but this is also one of the few videos I've been able to find with actual footage from Edmund Pettus Bridge.

[lilmike8879]

Reflect...;-)...its deep

[RUTHE1ONE]

I'm too young to know about the struggle in the 60's but i cant help but think that as a people we murder our own kind. Maybe just Maybe we have to march and be proactive to take out streets and neighborhoods just as these freedom riders and others did..maybe to protest against our own people will tell the killers, robbers, thugs and others that we ain't scared of you and your guns..yes with prayer and marchers, just as in the 60's, we mustin backdown and accept the status quod.

[bubblezakaPOC]

All i have to say is very powerful.

[DAVRACISTA]

Thank God for MLK the movement still CHANGEING The WORLD people looking and wanting FREEDOM. Great Song and Video. Thank you Bro.

[angeliamni]

IM FELLIN THIS AND THIS SONG IS SO FY