1. Civil Rights
A columnist for the segregation minded Richmond News Leader wrote, "Here were the colored students in coats, white shirts, and ties and one of them was reading Goethe and one was taking notes from a biology text. ... This day would be called Bloody Sunday. ... Two weeks after Bloody Sunday, the march was redone with over three thousand people protesting. ... Although the march to Montgomery was successful, the trip back was not for one white housewife who was driving marchers back. On the way back to Selma, some Ku Klux Klansmen overtook her and she was shot. ...
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- Grade Level: High School