Joanne Bland was an 11-year-old schoolgirl in Selma, Alabama, when she marched into history, joining hundreds of activists on the Edmund Pettus Bridge for a demonstration that turned into one of the bloodiest confrontations of the civil rights movement. Baton-wielding state troopers and horse-mounted members of the sheriff's posse, plunged into the peaceful crowd that day in March 1965, breaking […]