On March 7, 1965, hundreds of demonstrators marching for voting rights were brutally attacked by law enforcement at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on what became known as "Bloody Sunday." On Sunday, thousands came out to commemorate that day, many locking arms and singing "We Shall Overcome" and "This Little Light of Mine." The crowd included several people who had marched along with Dr. Martin Luther King, as well as many who could still remember what it was like in the South during that era. Louis McCarter of Birmingham brought his granddaughter to Selma to learn about the civil rights struggle. "Our lives are better because of this," he told the Los Angeles Times. —Catherine Garcia
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