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March 7th

1 event recorded on The Ledger.

  1. 1965
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    Bloody Sunday on the Edmund Pettus Bridge

    Alabama state troopers attack civil-rights marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma during a voting-rights march. John Lewis is beaten and suffers a fractured skull. Televised footage galvanizes national support for the Voting Rights Act.

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