Congress will speak a day before an annual march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge saluting the 600 demonstrators violently assaulted in 1965 . Alabama state troopers beat demonstrators who participated in the March 7 , 1965 event on what is now known as Bloody Sunday . The sojourn will also be made by 95 members of Obama - including 23 Republicans , the largest group from the political party to attend since 1998 .
Obama will speak a day before an annual march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge saluting the 600 demonstrators violently assaulted in 1965 . Alabama state troopers beat demonstrators who participated in the March 7 , 1965 event on what is now known as Bloody Sunday . The sojourn will also be made by 95 members of Congress - including 23 Republicans , the largest group from the political party to attend since 1998 .