#tdih 1964 in Tuscaloosa, AL 500+ Black marchers were violently attacked by KKK & police during protests to end segregation on “Bloody Tuesday.”
Marchers took refuge in 1st African Baptist Church as police smashed windows w/ fire hoses & filled church w/ tear gas.
No one was ever held accountable.
Following months of protests to end segregation, Black residents of Tuscaloosa, Alabama were brutally attacked by police and the Klan inside the First African Baptist Church.