After 'Bloody Sunday,' the March 7, 1965, beating of civil rights marchers, protests broke out across the United States. Here's how The Times covered it.
March 7, 1965: Alabama state troopers use clubs against participants of a civil rights voting march in Selma, Ala.
A march by about 600 protesters on Sunday, March 7, 1965, was violently broken up by state troopers. Seventeen marchers were hospitalized and another 50 injured. Televised and still images of the authorities beating marchers circulated world-wide. Front page of the March 8, 1965, Los Angeles Times with the story and photo of beatings in Selma, Ala. Several additional wire photos were published inside the paper.After the March 7, 1965, beating of civil rights marchers, protests broke out across the United States. In Los Angeles, demonstrators gathered to demand federal intervention to protect the marchers in Alabama. Over the next few days, more than 100 protesters were arrested.
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