This cartoon by Herbert Block (known as “Herblock”) was published on March 9, 1965, two days after the “Bloody Sunday” incident in Selma, Alabama. When the news broke that a nonviolent protest march of some 600 individuals had been set upon suddenly by law enforcement officers at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, and that sixtyseven people had been injured (including seventeen hospitalized for serious injuries), the overall reaction was one of shock and disbelief. Television cameras had been recording the event, and it was broadcast to the public within minutes by the American Broadcasting Company, which cut into its regular programming. The scenes of the actual attack were so disturbing and graphic that the incident was almost immediately dubbed “Bloody Sunday.”