Boston delegation flies from Logan Airport to join a civil rights march in Alabama.

The next day, on what comes to be called “Bloody Sunday,” the marchers, led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., are turned back from crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma by some 500 Alabama state troopers and a sheriff’s posse using fire hoses and dogs. A second march, which includes some 500 people from Greater Boston, succeeds in crossing the bridge two days later.* Dr. King leads a third march from Selma, which ends when 25,000 people arrive in Montgomery on March 25, 1965.