Tear Gas On Edmund Pettus Bridge
View of police officers in a gas masks and Civil Rights marchers in a cloud of tear gas at the base of the Edmund Pettus Bridge during the first Selma to Montgomery March, Selma, Alabama, March 7, 1965. Armed police had employed the tear gas, as well as billy clubs, to disperse the marchers. The violence that ensued led to the event being known as 'Bloody Sunday.' (Photo by Charles Moore/Getty Images)

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