Riding with the wind: immigrant rights activists travel the Deep South to learn from the civil rights movements.
Colorlines Magazine › Vol. 7 Nbr. 1, March 2004
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Riding with the wind: immigrant rights activists travel the Deep South to learn from the civil rights movements.
On March 7, 1965, Congressman John Lewis, then chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), led one of the most dramatic protests of the civil rights movement when 600 marchers crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, singing "We Shall Overcome" and claiming their full rights as citizens of the United States. State troopers and local police attacked the marchers with billy clubs and tear gas in a confrontation that has become known as "Bloody Sunday."
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