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Remembering Selma: Marchers Commemorate 'Bloody Sunday'

In 1965, civil rights marchers were beaten, trampled and tear-gassed by police at the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
Image: People walk along the Edmund Pettus Bridge before the beginning of the 50th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery civil rights march in Selma
People walk along the Edmund Pettus Bridge before the beginning of the 50th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery civil rights march in Selma, Alabama March 8, 2015. TAMI CHAPPELL / Reuters