‘Bloody Sunday’ 60th anniversary marked in Selma with remembrances and concerns about the future
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Bloody Sunday 60th anniversary: ‘Country was not a democracy for Black folks until that happened’
60 years after Bloody Sunday in Alabama, elusive racial progress in Selma
The world saw that. Alabama lawmen, strongarms of the state, swung batons. Lewis fell, his head cracked open by a club. Others collapsed, crying from tear gas, as men on horseback charged with whips as if in battle. Like overseers on a plantation. “The whole nation was sickened by the pictures of that wild melee,” Mrs. King wrote.
In a move to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday and the historic Selma to Montgomery March, U.S. Representative Terri Sewell (AL-07) has spearhea
"People are afraid," Selma's mayor told more than 30 Congress members at the start of a weekend of remembrance.
The John and Lillian Miles Lewis Foundation has unveiled two new plaques to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the first Selma-to-Montgomery March.
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Black leaders grapple with progress being undone by a series of court rulings, state laws, and Donald Trump's targeting of racial equity.
The bill, H.R. 14, would strengthen the legal protections against racial discrimination in voting and representation.
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