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spazzmann

(748 posts)
Thu Mar 7, 2013, 10:36 AM Mar 2013

Today in Peace and Justice history on March 7, 1965

525 civil rights advocates began a 54-mile march on a Sunday morning from Selma, Alabama, to promote voting rights for blacks. Just after crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge on the outskirts of Selma, the marchers were attacked in what became known as Bloody Sunday. http://bit.ly/XsHIHM

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