Sixty-one years after state troopers attacked Civil Rights marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, thousands gathered in the Alabama city on Sunday, amid new concerns about the future of the Voting Rights Act. The March 7, 1965, violence that became known as Bloody Sunday helped spur passage of the landmark legislation that dismantled barriers to voting for Black Americans in the Jim Crow South.
Selma commemorates Bloody Sunday as new voting rights concerns arise
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Sixty-one years after state troopers attacked Civil Rights marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, thousands gathered in the Alabama city on Sunday, amid new concerns about the future of the Voting Rights Act. The March 7, 1965, violence that became known as Bloody Sunday helped spur passage of the landmark legislation that dismantled barriers to voting for Black Americans in the Jim Crow South.
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