Meaning of Bloody Sunday | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A 1905 event in St Petersburg in which as many as 4,000 unarmed citizens were killed by state forces.
   historical
2. A 1965 event in Selma, Alabama, where peaceful civil rights protesters were brutally beaten by police.
   US, historical
3. A 1972 event in Northern Ireland in which 14 civil rights protesters were shot and killed by a British Army regiment.
   British, Ireland, historical
4. Any of many similar events; see Bloody Sunday on Wikipedia for a complete list.
   historical

Examples

“Mr. Nelson covered the Selma-to-Montgomery freedom marches, including Bloody Sunday, on March 7, 1965, when 600 marchers were attacked with billy clubs and tear gas.”

“So when King – who had been in Atlanta for “Bloody Sunday” – telegrammed Parks about returning to Alabama to take part in a third mass march from Selma to Montgomery, her immediate answer was “Why, of course.””

“We eat and drink while tomorrow they die / Sunday, Bloody Sunday / The real battle just begun / Sunday, Bloody Sunday”

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