Modern Era · North America · Politics
1965
Selma to Montgomery march
March 7, 1965
On Bloody Sunday, Alabama state troopers attacked civil rights marchers with clubs and tear gas as they tried to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Television carried the pictures. Within five months Lyndon Johnson had signed the Voting Rights Act. The South's last weapons against Black political power were being pried away.
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