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Sunday, February 21

Selma’s ‘Bloody Sunday’: What to know about the march for civil rights

A peaceful march in protest of racial injustice set out from Selma, Ala., on March 7, 1965, but was met with violent resistance from local law enforcement in an event that became known as "Bloody Sunday."

Monday, July 27

Rep. John Lewis’ body carried across Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama tributes

The body of civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., who died at the age of 80 on July 17 after a battle with pancreatic cancer, crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., for the final time Sunday.