During the first Selma voting rights march on March 7, 1965,

On March 7, 1965, the first Selma voting rights march—later known as Bloody Sunday—was stopped at the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Police attacked the marchers with tear gas and clubs as they crossed it. The marchers did not attack onlookers, and they were not granted voting rights that day.

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