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On this day 53 years ago, peaceful protesters in Selma, Alabama, were confronted by officers -- wielding clubs and tear gas -- on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. What unfolded thereafter was broadcast to the country, and is now remembered as "Bloody Sunday" https://t.co/AHCkIXRUOO https://t.co/WwcnM1f6co — PolitiTweet.org