Friday marks 60 years since Bloody Sunday. On March 7, 1965, the then 25-year-old John Lewis and fellow civil rights activist Hosea Williams planned to lead hundreds in a peaceful march for voting rights from Selma, Ala. to the state capitol in Montgomery, Ala.
But as the protestors approached the Edmund Pettus Bridge, they were met with violence at the hands of state troopers. Lewis, who suffered a fractured skull, was among a large group of protesters who were injured.
On Thursday’s edition of “Closer Look,” show host Rose Scott took a look back to the days before, the day of, and what came after.
