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Preservation of Selma’s Bloody Sunday site a passion for 2 Auburn professors Auburn professors Richard Burt, right, and Keith Hébert are leading an interdisciplinary team of researchers dedicated to identifying the participants and details of Bloody Sunday—one of the most seminal moments in civil rights history that occurred in Selma, Alabama, on March 7, 1965. (Source: Auburn University) By WSFA Staff | February 27, 2021 at 7:56 AM CST - Updated February 27 at 2:42 PM SELMA, Ala. (WSFA) - Two Auburn University professors are working to preserve the historical significance of the area near Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge, site of the 1965 event that became known around the world as “Bloody Sunday.”

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