SELMA, Alabama — On March 7, 1965, photos of Alabama police officers beating black marchers on Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge went old-school viral across the United States. That day became known as Bloody Sunday, and it transformed the country.
Those marchers were simply asking for the right to vote, and their memory was honored on Sunday by thousands of modern marchers who took to the same bridge in celebration of the Bloody Sunday marchers' sacrifice.
We took some photos of the modern march and juxtaposed them with shots of Civil Rights Movement marches from the 1960s, below.
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