Scenes from Freedom Summer 2007 2/20/2008

In Selma, Ala., Freedom Summer 2007 participants
pose alongside a plaque commemorating "Bloody Sunday,"
March 7, 1965.

The Selma to Montgomery marches, which included
Bloody Sunday, marked the political and emotional peak
of the American civil rights movement. The marches, which
marked the culmination of the voting rights movement in
Selma, Ala., were launched by Amelia Boynton Robinson
and her husband.

"Bloody Sunday" occurred on March 7, 1965, when 600
civil rights marchers were attacked by state and local police
with billy clubs and tear gas. Of the three attempts made, only
the marchers in the third, and last, try reached Montgomery.
The route is memorialized as the Selma to Montgomery National
Historic Trail.