On March 7, 1965 demonstrators begin a 54-mile march in response to activist Jimmie Lee Jackson's murder in Marion, Alabama during a peaceful march. They are protesting both his death, and the unfair state laws and local violence that keep African Americans from voting. About 525 peaceful marchers are violently assaulted by state police near the Edmund Pettus Bridge outside Selma. Television networks broadcast the attacks of "Bloody Sunday" nationwide, creating outrage at the police and sympathy for the marchers.
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