Later that night, James Reeb, a minister from Boston outraged by what he saw on Bloody Sunday who had come to Selma and marched in the protest, was brutalized by Ku Klux Klan members. The 38-year ...

Hundreds of people rallied at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, to mark 60 years since "Bloody Sunday," when authorities beat peaceful protesters who were marching against race ...

The images are also being commemorated in a book, Selma Is Now. "Bloody Sunday changed my father, both as a man and human being, and it opened his eyes to the depth of the struggle for equal ...

On March 7, 1965 — a day that would become known as "Bloody Sunday" — 600 marchers heading east out of Selma topped the graceful, arched span over the Alabama River, only to see a phalanx of ...

The Brief. A large group gathered in Selma, Alabama, on March 9, 2025, to mark the 60th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday." Bloody Sunday was a 1965 voting rights march met with extreme violence.

Selma's Director of Public Safety, Wilson Baker, receives a telegram from a resident of Framingham, Mass., reacting to news of the Bloody Sunday violence. Image: Spider Martin/Briscoe Center for ...

But until Bloody Sunday, nothing had emerged out of Selma that gripped the nation’s attention. Even the Birmingham images didn’t have quite the immediate impact of those from Selma.

The photo of Bloody Sunday on the billboard was by Spider Martin, whose work will be featured in the upcoming MMFA exhibition, Selma is Now: Civil Rights Photographs by Spider Martin. This ...