they used electric cattle prods, bull whips, wooden clubs wrapped with barbed wire. i was hit in the head by a state trooper with a nightstick. i thought i saw death. i thought i was going to die. sheriff clark and his
this courthouse is a serious place of business. you seem to take it to be just a disneyland or something on parade. we have had numerous negroes that couldn t read and write come down and say they were told to come, and if they didn t come, they would lose their pensions from the welfare department or their social security or have their land confiscated if they didn t show up to register to vote. and when they came down, they had no idea then what they were supposed to do. you are breaking the injunction by not allowing these people to come inside this courthouse and wait. this courthouse does not belong to sheriff clark. this courthouse belongs to the people of dallas county, and these are the people of dallas county. and they have come to register. and you know this within your own heart, sheriff clark. clark, he knew what he wanted to do to me, but he couldn t do it in the open because of all those cameras, right. we have come to be here because they are registering at this
to come, and if they didn t come, they would lose their pensions from the welfare department or the social security. or have their land confiscated if they didn t show up to register to vote. and when they came down, they had no idea then what they were supposed to do. you are breaking the injunction by not allowing these people to come inside this courthouse and wait. that s up to the this courthouse does not belong to sheriff clark. this courthouse belongs to the people of dallas county, and these are the people of dallas county. and they have come to register. and you know this within your own heart, sheriff clark. clark, he knew what he wanted to do to me, but he couldn t do it in the open because of all those cameras, right. we have come to be here because they are registering at this time. and i can t enforce the law. we have come to register. and this is our reason for being here. you re blinding me with that light. move back.
they used electric cattle prods, bull whips, wooden clubs wrapped with barbed wire. i was hit in the head by a state trooper with a nightstick. i thought i saw death. i thought i was going to die. sheriff clark and his volunteer army, the posse men, sent 80 men, women and children into the hospital. abc broke in with this footage.
point on the edmund pettus bridge. down below we see a sea of alabama state troopers. opposing the protesters was a force of alabama state troopers, sheriff clark, and clark s private army, the so-called posse men. we saw these men putting on their gas masks. they came toward us. it will be detrimental to your safety to continue this march. you are ordered to disperse. go home or go to your church. this march will not continue.