Selma 50 years later: Remembering Bloody Sunday 

People forget that the older generation sacrificed alot to make sure we have our freedom today.

This woman is a real American hero

Look at us now! Look at this generation and how they are living right now. It’s sad and embarrassing! We act so woke but we’re so divided. Oppressing one another, selling drugs, gang banging etc... our communities are run down! We aren’t helping each other!

June 2020, reflect on this and VOTE in Nov.

May you rest in paradise, Ms. Boynton. Well done, faithful servant.

I use this video every semester in my college classes when I teach the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Every semester. This is history. American history. And we should never, ever forget the sacrifices made by these extraordinary citizen to obtain the vote for all. Teach it, teach it, teach it.

"They came with horses..They came with nightsticks" Now, They come with military choppers, armored vehicles and military firearms. "Freedom isn't free"!!

Someone’s mother, daughter, sister, aunt, grandmother, & GOD’S Creation ! A human being !

Ms. Robinson lived to 104.

Im only 21and can't imagine how it felt like living in that time as a black person. I see this woman, martin and all the people who marched and fight for my generation as heroes. The history of america since 1870 till 70s is horrible when it comes to hate, racism, homophobia, unfairness etc... many cities in america still have to learn a lot. in my opinion people should stop the incredible proudness of their country and start see what the true problems are. not like every country has their problems but the american politician is still very very bad.

IM IN TEARS LOOKN AT DAT LUH BOY SMH I FEEL IT TOO BBY SMH

And they say we should match peacefully...Look what happens when we do 🤷🏾‍♀️

If I were alive then I for sure would have marched As a young Hispanic man I feel that although I am not black Martin Luther King and many others fought for my rights as an American human being even though I am not black I am still not white and no matter what race I am or what religion I believe in I am still a human being and because of people like Dr.King I am able to believe so.

So sad & disgusting.. To hear the pain in these people voice brings tears to my eyes.. I hate that they're trying to place this Cultural Race Theory in schools so that we can't learn about all the racism that's been doing on for decades.. If they don't want it taught, then they shouldn't have done it.. God bless everyone 💚

How more peaceful could the protest had been. They were not even blocking the traffic.

Still shakin my head in 2020. :( sad. RIP Mr John Lewis. Thank you for your Iconic place in History 🙏

I just came across the bridge

Admirable and noble woman! She was and is a credit to us all! I have a dream that one day skin color will only be something beautiful and differences encouraged! People opening their eyes to see and Love people! Love to all!

It’s unbelievable that we are still fighting for this today. We need to hurry and have equal rights now.

What a beautiful strong Queen!!!! I salute you . Thank you my sister!!!!!!! A job well done. We will continue to run the race as you part the patron to us.

“They came with horses,” Amelia Boynton Robinson recalled. “They came with nightsticks.” On March 7, 1965, Alabama state troopers blocked civil rights demonstrators who had just crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma. Boynton Robinson, then a middle-aged black woman, was tear-gassed and beaten and slumped unconscious on the side of the road. The troopers attacked the marchers in events that became known as "Bloody Sunday." Learn more about the woman now called “Queen Mother” and join us for a look back at the historical Civil Rights Movement and a look ahead at the modern movement 50 years after Selma at latimes.com/selma. #selma #civilrights #bloodysunday

Right. You should check out my recent videos. I just left the bridge. Unfortunately that town still looks every bit of 1965. Truly

tRump: there was fine people on both sides.

The REAL heroes of our country!!! GOD bless all of you warriors who never backed down to what you believed in!! You were all the true faces of strength and bravery that we can never forget or take for granted

Just another reason why to *never* trust the cops. It's deep seeded and deep rooted that blue comes first.

Who’s here in 2020

What is so sad to me? That none of us originated in America, seriously, whites came and took land from indians, I wasnt old enough to know all the hatred that happen back then, I wasnt here, I am glad. My mother taught us that all people are from the creator and all people should be treated with respect, no matter their color, money, background, nor family name. Im proud my mother raised us the way she did. I am sadden by the events that unfolded in the past. I could not imagine watching my children down graded just for their color. I could not imagine this time era that so many endured the real pains. I myself am not responsible, but apology for them and their ignorance. No one person deserves any less courtesy than that of another. We all come in this world the same and we shall all be put to rest in the same dirt. The in between is merely up to people to decide to move forward or be held back with anger and deceipt. So many people today are so angered, it breaks my heart. All I can say is Bless anyone who can press on with love and greatness......

Long after when I came to this country I would ask myself who should I thank for my success? For the freedom? Now I know: THANK YOU and many like you, John Lewis, Martin Luther king, Mr. Robinson and many more

Bless you my lady ur a sweet heart

We are back in 1968

How can u treat people like animals so sad

Please include closed captions so that the information is accessible to everyone

I was with a battalion of MPS, federal troops, B company 503 MP BN. I have been looking for any film takes of federal troops in the second, but probably the third march. there were 2 other battalions or some 2000 troops. President Jonson ordered that all federal troops were to assume deplopment out of range of press, I know I was on the far side ot the petis bridge, and the crowd went jubilant as NAACP leaders crossed the bridge. The joy was loud enough to here for 1/4 mile. Locals now knew that federal troops would intervene. It was difficult to hide soldiers, and the locals had seen us in various parts of the state,.......doing what? The message was clear, more clear, than now. Jim crow was on it's way out.....The price of freedom was high but the price of segregation was even higher d .TMG........... B co. 503 MP BN.

I would like to post this video to LiveLeak.com. Here is a copy of the text that I wrote to accompany it. Today is the 50th anniversary of the the March from Selma, Alabama to state’s capitol, Montgomery. To those of you who don’t know or remember why this is a significant event, please give me a moment. This event happened in 1965, the year I was born. I’ve lived nearly fifty years watching how this great country has transformed over the decades, much of it for the better. I was not yet born when it the event happened, but it was significant enough that they taught it to us in school when I was old enough to start attending. What happened on that day became known as bloody Sunday. The reason why it is know as that is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had planned a march from Selma to Montgomery to petition for voting rights in that state. But the then Governor of Alabama, George Wallace, (infamously known for the quote “Segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever”) had other ideas. "There will be no march between Selma and Montgomery," Wallace said, citing possible traffic violations. He ordered highway patrol chief Col. Al Lingo to "use whatever measures are necessary to prevent a march.The Rev. Andrew Young, an aide to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., said, "We're going ahead. We don't intend to be pushed around or intimidated," Young said. "If they try to bully us, we'll have to stand our ground and refuse to cooperate." What happened that day was captured by journalists and news photographers.

Seeing what's happening in this country today. We see who would support those cops and who would side with the protestors.

Thank you soo much Ma'am for your dedication and sacrifice so that generations after you can exercise our most basic of rights as citizens.

Heartbreaking and beautiful. Pure determination and strength. There are no words. These people have all my respect. John Lewis, MLK, the SCLC. Folks like this brave woman are true heroes. Without them the world would not be the same for anyone, no matter race.

They all are heros. God bless her, and Mr. John Lewis.

Ive been watching a former TV, Any Day Now, And I sit here crying….Crying for what they did to those people marching, and how the blacks were so suppressed. I am a white woman, 78 years old, and I cannot believe what one Group of people can do to another, Just because of the color of their skin. God rest Lyndon Johnson for doing what he did to stop the madness. My heart breaks for everybody who took part in that march. 😢

Ashamed too be white ! God bless all who lost their lives too them horrible people #MartinLutherKing

Wrong is wrong right is right bind up the evil spirits in this world

On judgment day I wonder what they will say to Jesus,I’m sorry

The greatest respect that you can give these heroes is to VOTE!!!!! May They Rest In Power!!!

This made me realize that things haven't changed all that much. When armed white supremacists surrounded the Raleigh capitol building (protesting while armed is illegal here), the police did nothing. When the BLM protest formed they were met with police in riot gear, on the streets and rooftops indiscriminately firing tear gas and rubber bullets into the crowd. Later that evening they walked through a neighborhood firing rubber bullets at anyone outside including a grandma who came to the door to ask what was happening. When a local politician asked the police chief why there was a discrepancy, the answer was silence, no answer.

Every Freedom Has Blood Ponds ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️😭😭

The young people know nothing of this

My family is white and Native American from Kentucky my mom lost her first job because she was warned by her boss not to eat lunch with her black friend, she refused and was fired for it.. this was in 74

Is Nick Canon wrong in describing them as a savages?if you watch this and the actions in the past clearly show a traits of a savages .

She is damn right it was well worth it! But now its time for this age of youth to continue the struggle. It will more difficult but will spark the fire once more in hopes to shed light on the darkness that blots out equality.

If you seen Ferguson's Finest out trying to stop the Michael Brown demonstration. You would see the best armed war machine's this land of the free has to offer. They made the clam cops of Selma look like school boy bullies. Mr. Wilson sure opened a Pandora's Box.

Thank you Queen...

I hope all those that inflicted all that carnage spend eternity thinking about it.

Change is never easy.

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rip to and icon john lewis!

Register to VOTE

And we out here shooting each other like life has no value.

No more racism

The look of that young boy maybe her grandson is priceless

2020 still this shit is happening still Thanks Christian amerikkka And this is the best country in the world my ass

police brutality under the color of law

I didn’t live through this but my god this is sad. I am so glad that blacks’ have equal rights now. But even though the rights are equal, not everything is equal still.

god bless martin luther king ,frensh people stay with you

I experience racism every day here in California.

This is one amazing woman God bless her

Love to get knowledge from wise people.

It was called “Bloody Sunday.” But at least no one was killed.

Élections, piege a cons.

god will get them

Now Portland

Where was God so loved everybody .

It was so peaceful back then

Call you have I in the room, but it was going on? I love you too right? I love you for right to the art and I was! I love you for your time a couple the morning so to your help to the morning up forthcoming book and the world I was interested, I, but I love the way home now, I day of my old and dad is not going out to bed, but I'm not the world in this case it a few, the morning and be in the morning so I'm not a long day tomorrow so what do I love it! it's pointless. subway and the best way home from a love place

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Bull O'Conner is alive and well nothing much has changed

Good trouble 🖤

All my family move in long beach California that the time blood sunday remember watch on the show

sick!

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I'm just trying to figure out how and why my black people allowed themselves to become slaves from the beginning ? Most of our black ppl have the heart to fight and kill each other, but not the heart to fight and kill the enemy, SMFH... 😢

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those polple that die 😢

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Still many many people trying to benefit from what happened at Selma over 50 years ago. "Bloody Sunday" as a tagline is inappropriately used for this event.

Q lindo. Q fantástico. Viver para o bem. Perfect. Entrou para a história da humanidade como una lutadora por sonhos. Dias melhores

What does she say? "if she's dead than ...." I'm not racist I just don't understand.

Look at the town today!!!!! Repent

Bloody sunday was in ireland

Sue abc...they were there with 📷..the news was there...and tape the whole thing

Today that place( Selma ) is a gang s factory, is the sweet home of many gangs.

its usually a bit difficult when the obedience sticks are brought out. but with time they learn to stay home.

Fraud

This event cannot compare to the events of the Blood Sunday when a estimate 10,000 jews were killed during the start of WW2 or the events of what happened in Northern Ireland.

I miss segregation

Everybody still sleeping