MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Facing a sea of state troopers, Charles Mauldin was near the front line of voting rights marchers who strode across the now-infamous Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on March 7, 1965.
The violence that awaited them shocked the nation and galvanized support for the passage of the U.S. Voting Rights Act a few months later.
Bloody Sunday in Alabama, 1965…