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March 7, 1965

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The Selma to Montgomery March

Six hundred marchers assembled in Selma on Sunday, March 7, and, led by John Lewis and other SNCC and SCLC activists, crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge over the Alabama River en route to Montgomery. Just short of the bridge, they found their way blocked by Alabama State troopers and local police who ordered them to turn around. When the protesters refused, the officers shot teargas and waded into the crowd, beating the nonviolent protesters with billy clubs and ultimately hospitalizing over fifty people. 'Bloody Sunday' was televised around the world. Martin Luther King called for civil rights supporters to come to Selma for a second march. When members of Congress pressured him to restrain the march until a court could rule on whether the protesters deserved federal protection, King found himself torn between their requests for patience and demands of the movement activists pouring into Selma. King, still conflicted, he led the second protest on March 9 but turned it around at the same bridge. King’s actions exacerbated the tension between SCLC and the more militant SNCC, who were pushing for more radical tactics that would move from nonviolent protest to win reforms to active opposition to racist institutions. On March 21, the final successful march began with federal protection, and on August 6, 1965, the federal Voting Rights Act was passed, completing the process that King had hoped for. Yet Bloody Sunday was about more than winning a federal act; it highlighted the political pressures King was negotiating at the time, between movement radicalism and federal calls for restraint, as well as the tensions between SCLC and SNCC.

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During his 22 season major league career, Harmon Killebrew amassed 573 career home runs, including 8 seasons of at least 40 round trippers. “Hammerin’ Harmon” led the league in home runs 6 times and was named as an all-star during 11 of his 22 seasons. Killebrew’s best season came in 1969 when he won the American League’s Most Valuable Player Award while also leading the Twins to a divisional title. Killebrew was elected to baseball’s Hall of Fame in 1984 and has his uniform # 3 retired by the Twins. Best season: 1969: 49 Home Runs, 140 RBIs, 106 Runs, batting Average .276
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