Edmund Pettus Bridge, crossing the Alabama River in Selma, Alabama, that was the site of what became known as “Bloody Sunday,” a landmark event in the history of the American civil rights movement. On that day, March 7, 1965, white law-enforcement officers violently dispersed protesters, the vast majority of whom were African American, as they crossed the bridge during the first attempt to initiate the Selma March.Martin Luther King speech at Brown Chapel, January 1965: When we get the right to vote, we will send to the statehouse not men who will stand in the doorways of universities to keep Negroes out, but men who will uphold the cause of justice. Give us the ballot.Memorial to Martin Luther KingFirst Baptist Church was the first church in Selma to host meetings and activities of the Dallas County Voters League, violating unconstitutional anti-mass meeting laws, where in 1965 it organized the Selma to Montgomery march.Monuments at Civil Rights Memorial Park
