SELMA, Ala. — In remembrance of the historic Bloody Sunday of 1965, Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to attend an event in Selma that will mark the 59th anniversary of the brutally violent day when law enforcement officers attacked civil rights demonstrators on Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.
Bloody Sunday is forever etched in U.S. history after protestors were brutally beaten The protestors were attacked by police while hundreds of of people marched across Alabama on March 7, 1965. Every year, a march is held at the bridge commemorate Bloody Sunday.
In addition to Harris, U.S. Attorney General Merrick B. Garland is expected to attend the event this weekend.
More on Bloody Sunday and this weekend’s event in Alabama.
