On Feb. 15, 1858, at the B Street home of Sutter County District Attorney Zachariah Montgomery, Eleanor Bridget Evoy Montgomery gives birth to John Joseph Montgomery. He is one of six children born to ...
He led more than 600 peaceful protestors across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma to march for voting rights. The group was attacked by Alabama State Troopers in what would be known as "Bloody Sunday.