Rep. John Lewis recounts Bloody Sunday in 7 Tweets

On March 7, 1965, Rep. John Lewis and Hosea Williams attempted to lead protesters in Selma over the Edmund Pettus Bridge on a 45-mile march to Montgomery.

The goal was to bring attention to Jimmie Lee Jackson who had been killed weeks earlier by a state trooper after Jackson's attempt to protect his mother during a voter registration march.

On the 51st anniversary of what came to be known as Bloody Sunday, Lewis took to Twitter to recount that moment in American history.