Marchers commemorate 60 years since Selma, Alabama's "Bloody Sunday"
Hundreds of people gathered in Selma, Alabama on Sunday, March 9, to retrace the steps civil rights protesters took 60 years ago as they marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge and were brutally beaten as they peaceful petitioned for voting rights.
Commemorations of what's known as "Bloody Sunday" were highlighted by activists who participated in the march in 1965 being pushed in wheelchairs across the bridge, joined my members of Congress and civil rights leaders.
On March 7, 1965, roughly 600 civil rights activists began a 50-mile (80km) march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, to end racial discrimination in voter registration.
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