Video: 'Eyes On The Prize - (Part 6) Bridge to Freedom 1965' (Mar. 7, 1965, at 19:46)

(Sunday, March 7, 1965, during the African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954–68)) — Alabama state troopers and volunteer officers of the Dallas County sheriff’s office tore through a column of unarmed African-American demonstrators with tear gas, nightsticks and whips at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma today to enforce Gov. George C. Wallace’s order against a protest march from Selma to Montgomery.

Video: 'PBS LBJ Part 2' (Mar. 7, 1965, at 19:40)

17 marchers were hospitalized.