Bloody Sunday Turns 60
The day in pictures.
NPR provides a visual remembrance on the 60th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday", when peaceful civil rights activists were brutally attacked as they attempted to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. These are newly restored photos taken by James "Spider" Martin, who at the time was a freelance journalist at the Birmingham News.
Each picture is truly worth a thousand words.
We also encourage you to read Joyce Vance's remembrance of this day, how it led to passing the Voting Rights Act, and how that act has since been gutted by Shelby County v. Holder.
Technical issues prevent us from providing an embedded link, but you can see the photos here.
"'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 rights for African Americans in a profoundly urgent way,' [James Martin's] daughter, Tracy Martin, says in [her] book."
Source tags: NPR
