Selma-Dallas County Library to exhibit Bloody Sunday photo gallery to identify unknown marchers

Bloody Sunday library exhibit

Selma-Dallas County Library will host a photo gallery of the historic Bloody Sunday incident of 1965 in the hopes of identifying unknown marchers who were captured in the photographs. 

The project is led by Auburn professors Richard Burt and Keith Hébert. Alabama State University and Selma High School faculty are also participating. 

The photos capture the moments when Civil Rights marchers crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge only to be met with violence from Alabama State Troopers. 

The incident has gone down as one of the most infamous acts of violence from segregationists during the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. Selma's Amelia Boynton Robinson is one of the most noted marchers to be seen in the photographs. 

However, many of the marchers during the incident remain unidentified. More than 70 of the marchers have been identified but the organizers of the exhibit hope to name more. 

The exhibit is free and open to the public. It will be held in the Vaughan Room of the library from Monday, Nov. 8 to Wednesday, Nov. 10. from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

Selma-Dallas County Library is located at 1103 Selma Avenue. 

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