re: #170 dentate

Umm, nope. March 7, 1958 was a Friday.

They had to walk a while:

On March 7, demonstrators start a 54-mile march in response to an activist’s murder. They are protesting his death and the unfair state laws and local violence that keep African Americans from voting. Led by SNCC activists John Lewis and Hosea Williams, about 525 peaceful marchers are violently assaulted by state police near the Edmund Pettus Bridge outside Selma.

Television networks broadcast the attacks of “Bloody Sunday” nationwide, creating outrage at the police, and sympathy for the marchers.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eyesontheprize/story/10_march.html