Remembering Bloody Sunday

By adamg on Sat, 03/02/2024 - 12:17pm

Bloody Sunday commemoration at the State House

Molly Lanzarotta attended the Poor Peoples Campaign commemoration on the Common and at the State House of Bloody Sunday in 1965, when armed goons under the control of the county sheriff, some on horseback, attacked and beat peaceful civil-rights marchers in Selma, AL.

National outrage over the attack - ABC News broke into a broadcast of "Judgment at Nuremberg" to show footage from Selma - lead to the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

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There’s one Bloody Sunday

By Jiggles on Sat, 03/02/2024 - 12:53pm.

And it didn’t happen in the United States.

OK, so you're not a fan of modern American history ...

By adamg on Sat, 03/02/2024 - 6:19pm.

But can you accept the possibility there might be two horrible events on either side of the Atlantic with the same name?

Many Bloody Sundays

By SamWack on Sat, 03/02/2024 - 6:23pm.

Wikipedia lists no less than twenty-three events that have been memorialized as "Bloody Sunday". The one referred to here, March 7, 1965, was known by that appellation well before January 30, 1972. There is nothing to be gained by trying to assert a monopoly on grievance.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1966/03/06/issue.html

see page 76..

Heck

By deselby on Sun, 03/03/2024 - 6:26am.

Today's gonna be a Bloody Sunday.

Never forget, but that was not in Boston.

By anon on Sat, 03/02/2024 - 2:51pm.

7 years later the British Army murdered 13 unarmed Catholic civilians on the streets of Londonderry in "Northern" Ireland, on Bloody Sunday, January 30, 1972. Years after a whitewash investigation cleared the uniformed murderers, the Queen exalted one of them with the MBE.