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1965 - The Edmund Pettus Bridge (Bloody Sunday)

Two-minute Warning. John Lewis, Hosea Williams and the other Foot Soldiers are confronted by Alabama State Police on the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Bloody Sunday.

Spider Martin (March 7, 1965 aka “Bloody Sunday”)

The Edmund Pettus Bridge (Bloody Sunday)


Alabama State Troopers gave John Lewis, Hosea Williams and the other Foot Soldiers in the Selma-to-Montgomery march a “two-minute warning” to disperse before violently attacking them with clubs, whips, tear gas and horses. John Lewis suffered a skull fracture that day.

 
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