Bloody Sunday
(historical, USA) A 1965 event in Selma, Alabama, where peaceful civil rights protesters were brutally beaten by police.
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(historical, USA) A 1965 event in Selma, Alabama, where peaceful civil rights protesters were brutally beaten by police.
So when King – who had been in Atlanta for “Bloody Sunday” – telegrammed Parks about returning to Alabama to take part in a third mass march from Selma to Montgomery, her immediate answer was “Why, of course.”
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(historical) A 1905 event in St Petersburg in which as many as 4,000 unarmed citizens were killed by state forces.
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(historical, British, Ireland) A 1972 event in Northern Ireland in which 14 civil rights protesters were shot and killed by a British Army regiment.
We eat and drink while tomorrow they die / Sunday, Bloody Sunday / The real battle just begun / Sunday, Bloody Sunday
“On Bloody Sunday: A New History of the Day and Its Aftermath By Those Who Were There by Julieann Campbell #books #literature #dedication”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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