BROOKLYN — FRIDAY, MARCH 7, marked the 60th anniversary of the “Bloody Sunday” civil rights march in Selma, Alabama, that ended in brutal violence against protestors. On Sunday, hundreds of demonstrators commemorated the occasion with a symbolic march across the Brooklyn Bridge – some among them veterans of the original walk decades ago, according to Politics NY.
On March 7, 1965, demonstrators crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma during a voting rights march were attacked by state troopers, sparking national outrage. Two days later, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led a second symbolic march, known as Turnaround Tuesday.
Sunday’s Brooklyn event, “Back to the Bridges,” honored the fight for Black voting rights and civil justice.
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