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Bloody Sunday was the result of a planned march in Selma, Alabama on March 7, 1965. Marchers that were crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge were charged by police on horseback. Many of the protesters were beaten with clubs. A unitarian minister from Boston died of wounds inflicted by segregationists in Selma. The protesters were then given permission to march by way of a court order to the police ruling that they were able to march from Selma to Montgomery. A second march then takes place from March 21-25, bringing in civil rights activists from all over the country. On the last day of the march a woman from Detroit is killed as she transports marchers.
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