7 March 1965
Bloody Sunday
Commands Alabama troopers at the bridge confrontation.
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Selma in United States of America. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Commands Alabama troopers at the bridge confrontation.
Is beaten unconscious during the bridge attack.
Works with SCLC during the Selma campaign.
Local voter registration struggle frames the march.
Supports the voting rights campaign in Alabama.
Young local activists support the voting rights march.
Supports the voting rights campaign that led to the march.
Co-leads the first Selma to Montgomery march.
Helps shape the Selma voting rights campaign.
SNCC activists support local demands for voting rights.
His earlier arrest helps intensify the Selma campaign.
Leads marchers toward the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
Marches for voting rights on Bloody Sunday.
Is absent when local civil rights leaders march from Selma and are attacked.
SCLC supports the voting rights campaign, but King is not on the first march.
Media coverage spreads news of the attack.
Photographs help publicise violence on the bridge.
Joins efforts to continue the march after the violence.
Dies after being attacked during Selma campaign events.
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