By Alabama Public Radio
Selma, AL – Civil rights advocates are in Selma this weekend for an anniversary march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. More than 35 Congressional delegates are expected to participate with thousands of others Sunday. Its a commemoration of the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march. March seventh, 1965 became known world-wide as Bloody Sunday. Law enforcement officers beat hundreds of marchers who were trying to cross the bridge. The television footage ran nationally and is considered one of the events leading to passage of the Voting Rights Act.