Police Attack African-American Protestors in Selma ca. 1965
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The first attempt at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, ended in disaster. Hosea Williams led the demonstrators across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where they met a police force in riot gear. Major John Cloud told them to disperse and refused to speak further with the protestors. When the group kept moving, police descended on them with clubs. On what became known as "Bloody Sunday", seventy protestors were injured. Footage was shown across the world, sparking outrage. Two days later, Martin Luther King Jr. led 2,000 people across the bridge, the first leg of the march to Montgomery.
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