March 7 is remembered as 'Bloody Sunday,' a pivotal moment in the civil rights movement when peaceful marchers in Selma, Alabama, were brutally attacked by state troopers in 1965.

Thousands gathered in Selma, Alabama, to commemorate the 61st anniversary of the Civil Rights march on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, amid renewed concerns about the Voting Rights Act.

Bernard LaFayette, a key figure in the Selma, Alabama voting rights campaign and a Freedom Rider, has died at the age of 85. He was instrumental in laying the groundwork for the movement that led to the Voting Rights Act.