Hundreds took to the Brooklyn Bridge on March 9 to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” the historic yet violent civil rights march across an Alabama bridge, including those who originally made the walk all those years ago.
Hundreds marched across the Edmund Pettis Bridge in Selma, AL on March 7, 1965 to protest the treatment of Black Americans and demand their right to vote. After crossing the span, they were met with state troopers who brutally beat them with batons and tear gas — the images of which led to a national outcry. Two days later, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led another symbolic march to the same bridge, known as Turn Around Tuesday, on March 9, 1965.
