March 7, 1965 became known as Bloody Sunday in the annals of the civil rights struggle in America. Around five hundred people set out to march the fifty-four miles from Selma, Alabama to the state capital in Montgomery in support of what would become the Voting Rights Act. A state trooper told them they were “an unlawful assembly” and ordered them to disperse. When they did not, they were attacked by about one hundred-fifty troopers and others who used billy clubs and tear gas. Fifty-eight people were injured including Representative John Lewis, he had a skull fracture. Two weeks later a federal judge ruled their march was constitutional, and they set out again with the National Guard protecting them.