Vol.62/No.12           March 30, 1998 
 
 
Civil Rights March Commemorated  
More than 500 people marched in Selma, Alabama, March 8 to commemorate the Civil Rights march known as "Bloody Sunday." The 1965 march, which was aimed at winning voting rights for Blacks in Alabama, was attacked by state cops who brutally beat the marchers. News of the assault helped galvanize support for the civil rights battle being waged there. In August of 1965 the Voting Rights Act was passed, marking an important victory in the struggle against the Jim Crow system of segregation. At the March 8 demonstration, veterans of the civil rights movement joined students, workers, political activists, and others. The action was sponsored by the National Voting Rights museum in Selma.  
 
 
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