FILE - In this Feb. 4, 1965, file photo, a policeman stands guard outside a fence surrounding the Perry County Jail in Marion, Ala., as arrested civil rights demonstrators chant and sing freedom songs. As the 55th anniversary of the civil rights clash known as Bloody Sunday approaches, townspeople in Alabama want to remind the world that the road to Selma began in a place called Marion. (AP Photo/Horace Cort, File)
March 7, 2020
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Civil rights: The road to Bloody Sunday began 30 miles away
MARION, Ala. (AP) — Della Simpson Maynor remembers the mounted police officer cracking her elbow with a baton. She recalls the panicked marchers unable to escape the onslaught, and the scuffle between officers and a young church deacon who was trying to protect his mother and grandfather. Most of all, she remembers the gunshot.