FBI Memos Summarizing Bloody Sunday
3/10/1965 - 3/12/1965
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This memo to Mr. Belmont from A. Rosen criticized the violent actions of Alabama State Troopers, with no provocation, against the protesters on the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965. It gives detailed information on the events that occurred on what came to be known as "Bloody Sunday."
This primary source comes from the Records of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
National Archives Identifier: 7634471
Full Citation: FBI Memorandums Summarizing Bloody Sunday; 3/10/1965 - 3/12/1965; 44-28492, Section 1 Serials 1-42, Alabama (1965) 3/7 Selma to Montgomery March, Edmund Pettus Bridge (Photos), Martin Luther King, Jr., A.D. King, Ralph Abernathy, A. Phillip Randolph, John Robert Lew; Classification 44 (Civil Rights) Headquarters Case Files, 1924 - 1978; Records of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Record Group 65; National Archives at College Park, College Park, MD. [Online Version, https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/fbi-memo-bloody-sunday, April 20, 2025]Activities that use this document
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