By Alabama Public Radio
Selma, AL – Monday was the 40th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday" in Selma. Four decades ago, as marchers crossed the Edmund Pettis Bridge, authorities attacked them and kept them from marching to Montgomery. Another march held two weeks later was successful. Linda Lowrey says she was among them then. Speaking today from the National Voting Rights Museum, she said marchers began re-enacting that march Monday morning and stopped near White Hall in Lowndes County. They were then driven back to Selma to attend a mass meeting Monday night at First Baptist Church. Marchers will be driven back to Lowndes County Tuesday for the second day of the march.