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赛尔码 (Selma) 的第一次游行：1965年3月7日
约翰．路易士 (John
Lewis) 是这场游行的主要组织者之一。这位只有25岁的阿拉巴马佃农是「学生非暴力协调委员会」 (Student
Nonviolent Coordinating Committee，SNCC) 的领袖，这个组织的成立宗旨就是在朝废止种族隔离政策与争取黑人投票权为主。这场游行本来是以非暴力的型态进行的。路易士和其他的领袖要求示威民众在和平抗议的过程中，不能对任何以暴力手段攻击他们的人采取反击行动。当重装警察攻击这些民众时，你知道他们有什么反应吗？
这场游行暂时停止，然后人们开始继续往前走。州警长警告群众，他们只有两分钟的时间可以停止游行活动，但是冲突攻击很快就发生了。警员们对这些民众丢掷催泪瓦斯，用棍棒殴打他们、对他们开枪、鞭打他们、骑着马践踏他们，还有许多人嘲笑他们要争取投票权的举动。电视与报纸纷纷以大篇幅的图象报导这个被称为「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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