Remembering "Bloody Sunday"

Jet, March 29, 2004

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Caption: REMEMBERING "BLOODY SUNDAY": The Rev. Jesse Jackson joins (l-r) Rep. John Lewis (D-GA), Rep. Artur Davis (D-AL) and the Rev. C.T. Vivian as they lead hundreds of marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, AL, on the 39th anniversary of the day known as "Bloody Sunday." On that day during a civil rights protest in March of 1965, state troopers used tear gas and billy clubs on activists as they marched across the bridge en route to the state Capitol to dramatize the denial of voting rights to Blacks in Selma, AL. The historic march led to the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.