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賽爾碼 (Selma) 的第一次遊行：1965年3月7日
約翰‧路易士 (John
Lewis) 是這場遊行的主要組織者之一。這位只有25歲的阿拉巴馬佃農是「學生非暴力協調委員會」 (Student
Nonviolent Coordinating Committee，SNCC) 的領袖，這個組織的成立宗旨就是在朝廢止種族隔離政策與爭取黑人投票權為主。這場遊行本來是以非暴力的型態進行的。路易士和其他的領袖要求示威民眾在和平抗議的過程中，不能對任何以暴力手段攻擊他們的人採取反擊行動。當重裝警察攻擊這些民眾時，你知道他們有什麼反應嗎？
這場遊行暫時停止，然後人們開始繼續往前走。州警長警告群眾，他們只有兩分鐘的時間可以停止遊行活動，但是衝突攻擊很快就發生了。警員們對這些民眾丟擲催淚瓦斯，用棍棒毆打他們、對他們開槍、鞭打他們、騎著馬踐踏他們，還有許多人嘲笑他們要爭取投票權的舉動。電視與報紙紛紛以大篇幅的影像報導這個被稱為「血腥星期天」的流血事件。
John Lewis was a key organizer of the march. The 25-year-old son of an Alabama sharecropper was the leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), an organization dedicated to ending segregation and to registering black voters. The movement practiced non-violence. Lewis and other leaders asked the demonstrators not to fight back against anyone who committed violence against them during the peaceful protest. What did the demonstrators do when the heavily armed state troopers confronted them?
The marchers paused for a moment, then kept walking. The sheriff warned the people that they had two minutes to break up the march, but the deputies attacked sooner. The demonstrators were tear-gassed, clubbed, spat on, whipped, trampled by horses, and jeered by others for demanding the right to register to vote. Television and newspapers carried pictures of the event that became known as "Bloody Sunday."
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