Vice President Kamala Harris will visit Selma, Alabama, on Sunday to commemorate the 57th anniversary of the attack on civil rights protesters that became known as Bloody Sunday, ABC News reported
On March 7, 1965, law enforcement officers used tear gas and billy clubs against a crowd of about 600 peaceful demonstrators as they attempted to cross the city's Edmund Pettus Bridge, hospitalizing 17 people and injuring dozens more.
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