Calendar
![SNCC leader John Lewis (light coat, center), attempts to ward off the blow as a burly state trooper swings his club at Lewis' head during the attempted march from Selma to Montgomery on March 7th, 1965. From the Bettman Archive [history.com]](https://stahmaxffcqankienulh.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/event-photos/Events/bloodySunday.jpg)
On this day in 1965, U.S. civil rights activists attempting to march from Selma, Alabama to the state capital in protest of voting discrimination were attacked by police and deputized white citizens, an event known as "Bloody Sunday".
Image: SNCC leader John Lewis (light coat, center), attempts to ward off the blow as a burly state trooper swings his club at Lewis' head during the attempted march from Selma to Montgomery on March 7th, 1965. From the Bettman Archive [history.com]
![Lucy E. Parsons, arrested for rioting during an unemployment protest in 1915 at Hull House in Chicago, Ill. Courtesy of the Chicago Historical Society. [zinnedproject.org]](https://stahmaxffcqankienulh.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/event-photos/Individuals/lucyParsons.jpg)
Lucy Parsons was an American labor organizer and anarcho-communist who died on this day in 1942. She co-founded the IWW and was described by the Chicago Police Department as "more dangerous than a thousand rioters".
Image: Lucy E. Parsons, arrested for rioting during an unemployment protest in 1915 at Hull House in Chicago, Ill. Courtesy of the Chicago Historical Society. [zinnedproject.org]
![Rudi Dutschke in 1976 [Wikipedia]](https://stahmaxffcqankienulh.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/event-photos/Individuals/rudiDutschke.jpg)
Rudi Dutschke, born on this day in 1940, was a socialist German sociologist and anti-war activist. In 1967, he advocated for radicals to take a "long march through the institutions" as a non-violent way to seek revolutionary change.
Image: Rudi Dutschke in 1976 [Wikipedia]