What the records say
- When
- 7 Mar 1965
- Kind
- Massacre
- Coordinates
- 32.41° N, 87.02° W
- Description
- selma incident
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Domingo Sangriento (1965)
El Domingo Sangriento de 1965 sucedió el 7 de marzo en Selma, Alabama. La policía local y soldados estatales asaltaron en el Puente Edmund Pettusa a 600 manifestantes por los derechos civiles que intentaban realizar la marcha de Selma a Montgomery.
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- Wikidata: massacres and genocidesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en Selma (Alabama) sucede el Domingo Sangriento, en que 200 policías estatales atacan a 525 manifestantes a favor de los derechos de la población de raza negra”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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