It’s been 60 years since Bloody Sunday , when a peaceful civil rights march over the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama turned violent as police attacked demonstrators.
Advocates in New York City have organized two marches to mark the occasion in what they say is a call for unity.
The first march will take place at 9 a.m. Sunday on the Mario Cuomo Bridge, and the second will be held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday on the Brooklyn Bridge.
March will honor Bloody Sunday, today’s challenges
What happened in Selma, Alabama on March 7, 1965 changed our country. The brutal images on television could be seen, heard and felt…