Biker crew gathers in Selma for Bloody Sunday commemoration honoring late Rep. John Lewis and civil rights giants brutally beaten in 1965 after Biden marked 56th anniversary by signing executive order to make voting easier
Bikers with the RedLiners Motorcycle Club from Atlanta gathered in front of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama
Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee marks the 56th anniversary of the day law enforcement officers brutally beat civil rights marchers on the bridge
This year was the first without civil rights icons Rep. John Lewis, the Rev. Joseph Lowery, the Rev. C.T. Vivian and attorney Bruce Boynton, who all died in 2020
“Today is the beginning of a new movement. Today is the end of millennia of oppression.” — Kate Millett, feminist author, speaking to 50,000 in New York City, August 26, 1970.
March 7 marks the 56th anniversary of an ill-fated march from Selma to Montgomery organized by Civil Rights activists to protest unfair voting rights in Alabama. This yearâs commemoration will be the first without Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), who died last summer.
Later known as âBloody Sunday,â the violent clash between law enforcement and protesters at the crest of the Edmund Pettus Bridge led to the hospitalization of more than 50 people, including Lewis, who was then 25 years old.
Televised accounts of âBloody Sundayâ outraged Americans of all backgrounds, and forced a sympathetic but reluctant President Lyndon B. Johnson to push for voting rights legislation.
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‘If you are beaten tomorrow, you must turn the other cheek’: Bloody Sunday, March 7, 1965
Updated Mar 07, 2021;
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On March 8, 1965, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. told marchers headed to Montgomery, Ala., the next day, “If you are beaten tomorrow you must turn the other cheek.”
King’s comment came just hours after hundreds of Blacks attempted to march from Selma to Montgomery to fight for the right to vote.
On that attempted journey on March 7, 1965, the marchers – led by Hosea Williams of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and John Lewis, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee - were met by law enforcement officers with tear gas and clubs.