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Article: Thousands cross Edmund Pettus Bridge during 40th anniversary of Selma-to-Montgomery march's 'Bloody Sunday'.(National Report)
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- Jet
- Article date:
- March 28, 2005
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It's been 40 years since "Bloody Sunday," when Rep. John Lewis and hundreds of other Civil Rights marchers were attacked by state troopers and sheriff's deputies who used billy clubs, attack dogs, and tear gas to drive them from the Edmund Pettus Bridge as they set off on a march from Selma, AL, to the state Capitol in Montgomery in protest of voting practices against Blacks.
And although the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led a second march two weeks later that reached its intended destination, it was the grim, gory spectacle of "Bloody Sunday" within the Civil Rights Movement that helped usher in the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
The Voting Rights Act ...