3MBC Charleston

But his death spawned the march on Selma. Many of us know about the march on Selma, but we don't know about the deacon whose blood was shed that fueled the march. That first march, 03/07/1965 was a brutal display known as Bloody Sunday. When troopers and county possum and attacked unarmed marchers with billy clubs and tear gas. And it was a day in which there, I say it, would have appeared to be a barren fig tree where it seemed like there would be no hope of fruit for justice and equity and equality.