Bloody Sunday

(noun)

The violent suppression of a peaceful civil rights march in Selma, Alabama on March 7, 1965 by state and local law enforcement.

Related Terms

Examples of Bloody Sunday in the following topics:

  • Jim Crow and the Civil Rights Movement

    • Key events in the Civil Rights Movement included: the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955-1956), which began when Rosa Parks, a NAACP secretary, was arrested when she refused to cede her public bus seat to a white passenger; the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School (1957); the Selma to Montgomery marches, also known as Bloody Sunday and the two marches that followed, were marches and protests held in 1965 that marked the political and emotional peak of the American civil rights movement which sought to secure voting rights for African-Americans.

  • Why Study Collective Behavior?

    • Police attack civil rights marchers outside Selma, Alabama, on Bloody Sunday, March 7, 1965.

  • Conclusion: WWII and the U.S.

    • Sheriff Jim Clarkof Dallas County, Alabama, loosed his deputies during the "Bloody Sunday" event of the Selma to Montgomery march, injuring many of the marchers and personally menacing other protesters.

  • Women of the Civil Rights Movement

    • In March of 1965, Liuzzo, then a housewife and mother of 5 with a history of local activism, heeded the call of Martin Luther King, Jr. and traveled from Detroit, Michigan to Selma, Alabama in the wake of the Bloody Sunday attempt at marching across the Edmund Pettus Bridge.

  • Legislative Change

    • Alabama police in 1965 attack voting rights marchers participating in the first of the Selma to Montgomery marches, which became known as "Bloody Sunday."

  • Conclusion: Post-War America

    • Sheriff Jim Clarkof Dallas County, Alabama, loosed his deputies during the "Bloody Sunday" event of the Selma to Montgomery march, injuring many of the marchers and personally menacing other protesters.

  • Dot Plots

    • The dot plot in Figure 3 shows the number of people playing on a Sunday and on a Wednesday.
    • A dot plot showing the number of people playing various card games on a Sunday and on a Wednesday.
    • An alternate way of showing the number of people playing various card games on a Sunday and on a Wednesday.

  • Campylobacter

    • Infection produces an inflammatory, sometimes bloody diarrhea, periodontitis, or dysentery syndrome, mostly including cramps, fever and pain.
    • The organism produces diffuse, bloody, edematous, and exudative enteritis.

  • Bacterial Foodborne Diseases

    • Most E. coli are not particularly dangerous to humans, but serotype O157:H7 can cause bloody diarrhea and is potentially fatal.
    • The toxin (c) destroys red blood cells, resulting in bloody diarrhea.

  • Partisan Politics

    • War issues resonated for a quarter century, as Republicans waved the "bloody shirt" (invoking the memories and sacrifices of dead Union soldiers), and Democrats warned against Black supremacy in the South and plutocracy in the North.
    • Democratic magazine ridicules the GOP's use of "bloody shirt" memories of Civil War.