Bloody Sunday, Selma, Alabama.

Bloody Sunday: On this day in 1965 the march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama began. As demonstrators crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge, Alabama state troopers and sheriff deputies dispersed civil rights marchers with tear gas and billy clubs. Three white Unitarian ministers, including Rev. James J. Reeb, were attacked on streets of Selma. Reeb died later in a Birmingham hospital. The march was eventually successful after a 3rd try that ended on March 25, 1965.