A group of marchers and Chattanooga activists made their way across the Walnut Street Bridge Sunday, March 7, to commemorate the "Bloody Sunday" protest that happened in Selma, Alabama, in 1965.
Sunday marked the 56th anniversary when more than 500 demonstrators gathered to demand the right to vote and cross Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge. They were met by dozens of state troopers and many were severely beaten.
The attack, broadcast on national television, captured the attention of millions and became a symbol of the brutal racism Black Americans endured across the South. Two weeks later, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and thousands of civil rights protesters marched the 49 miles from Selma to the state capital, Montgomery - an event that prompted Congress to eventually pass the Voting Rights Act of 1965.