A contingent of Alabama State Troopers, Dallas County Sheriff's deputies, and a deputized posse used batons and tear gas to beat back marchers at the Edmond Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965, quickly publicized as "Bloody Sunday."
Bloody Sunday
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