Hundreds of peaceful protestors were crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama 60 years ago today when they were met by a wall of police. Protesters were tear gassed and beaten.

SELMA, Ala. — Charles Mauldin was near the front of a line of voting rights marchers walking in pairs across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on March 7, 1965. The marchers were ...

Events, many of them free, include a re-enactment of the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The marches are led by Salute Selma, Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee and the city of Montgomery.

The foot soldiers are helped across the Edmund Pettus bridge during the 60th anniversary ... stick chased him all the way back to the public housing projects where his family lived.