Question

During the first Selma voting rights march on March 7, 1965,
protesters onlookers with tear gas and hoses.
marchers were by police as they crossed a bridge.
about 25,000 marchers were arrested.
marchers received the voting rights they sought.

Answer 1

Here’s a corrected version and a short explanation.

Corrected paragraph:
On March 7, 1965 — a day now known as “Bloody Sunday” — state troopers and sheriff’s deputies attacked civil rights marchers as they tried to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, using billy clubs, tear gas and mounted police to drive them back. Many marchers were beaten and injured. A later, successful march from Selma to Montgomery (March 21–25) drew about 25,000 participants who reached the state capitol. The Selma campaign helped spur Congress to pass the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (signed August 6, 1965), which secured many of the voting protections the marchers had been seeking.

Notes on the original lines:
- It was police who attacked marchers; they used clubs, tear gas and mounted charges — fire hoses were more associated with earlier Birmingham protests.
- Marchers were beaten/attacked as they crossed the bridge (not merely “by police” as a passive phrase).
- About 25,000 refers to the number who later completed the march to Montgomery, not arrests.
- The marchers’ goals were achieved by the passage of the Voting Rights Act later that year, rather than immediate on-the-spot granting of voting rights.