What was Bloody Sunday and what happened? (civil rights movement)

On "Bloody Sunday," March 7, 1965, some 600 civil rights marchers headed east out of Selma on U.S. Route 80. They got only as far as the Edmund Pettus Bridge six blocks away, where state and local lawmen attacked them with billy clubs and tear gas and drove them back into Selma.

One of the reasons for Georgia's founding; the colony was to serve as a defensive buffer between Spanish Florida and the successful English colony of South Carolina. ... James Oglethorpe and the trustees hoped to bring debtors and England's "worthy poor" to the colony to begin new lives.