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Tuscaloosa marchers complete the walk, 60 years after Bloody Tuesday

It took 60 years, but marchers completed the two-minute, .4-mile walk from First African Baptist Church to the Tuscaloosa County Courthouse on Sunday, as a commemoration of the horrific ordeal known as “Bloody Tuesday.” On June 9, 1964, 500-plus men, women and children prepared to march from First African to demonstrate at the then-new courthouse, […]