Today in History: ‘Bloody Sunday’ in Selma for civil rights movement

Source Chicago Tribune
Original Load Date March 7, 2026, 6 a.m.
Last Updated March 7, 2026, 6 a.m.
Original URL https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/07/today-in-history-bloody-sunday/

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Today is Friday, March 7, the 66th day of 2025. There are 299 days left in the year. Today in history: On March 7, 1965, a march by over 500 civil rights demonstrators was violently broken up at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama; state troopers and a sheriff’s posse fired tear gas and bea...