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Article: 'A Gun on One Hip, a Nightstick on the Other'; The sheriff behind 'Bloody Sunday' is dead. John Lewis recalls his old foe, and a day that changed America forever.(Interview)(Photograph)
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- Newsweek
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- June 18, 2007
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Byline: Alexandra Gekas
On March 7, 1965, some 600 men and women, black and white, headed east out of Selma, Ala., walking U.S. Highway 80 toward Montgomery in search of justice. Their efforts to register black voters three weeks earlier had been thwarted by Selma police. Six blocks into their march, as they walked across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, the civil-rights champions found themselves facing state troopers and members of the Dallas County Sheriff's Department. With the news media watching, Sheriff James Clark ordered his men to attack the peaceful demonstrators, who were beaten, tear-gassed and trampled. The shocking assault, known as "Bloody Sunday," ...