Tear Gas

State troopers and sheriff's deputies tear gassed demonstrators on May 7, 1965, during the Selma to Montgomery march. The day would later be named "Bloody Sunday."

Tear gas deployed against civil rights marchers at the Edmund Pettus Bridge, Bloody Sunday, Selma, Alabama
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Tear gas deployed against civil rights marchers at the Edmund Pettus Bridge, Bloody Sunday, Selma, Alabama