March On Selma Bridge Commemorates 50th Anniversary Of "Bloody Sunday"

Meera Dolasia
Tue, 10 Mar 2015 15:06:40 -0700

Fifty years ago, on Sunday, March 7th, 1965, six hundred civil rights activists gathered at the Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma, Alabama to start a peaceful 54-mile trek to the state capitol in Montgomery. The activists were upset at the wrongful death of Marion resident Jimmy Lee Jackson and the denial of their constitutional right to vote and planned to take their cause directly to Alabama Governor George Wallace.