SELMA, ALABAMA - MARCH 09: People visit monuments to Selma's foot soldiers after walking across Edmund Pettus Bridge to commemorate the 60th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday" on March 09, 2025 in Selma, Alabama. Community members and Democratic Congressional leadership mark the day on March 7, 1965 when a group of about 525 mostly African-American demonstrators gathered at Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church and attempted to march to Montgomery to demand the right to vote. The group was met by state troopers and were brutally beaten when they refused to turn back leaving at least 17 hospitalized and 40 others who received treatment for injuries and the effects of tear gas. The annual event which has been dubbed “The Annual Pilgrimage to Selma,” is held the second weekend of every March, consisting of a festival of music, art and historical remembrance leading up to the “March to Restore Voting Rights” across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)