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Anniversary of ‘Bloody Sunday’ Marks Continued Fight for Voting Rights
Selma Jubilee revelers annual trek across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama reminds us why we can never stop advocating for ...
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Bloody Sunday: Today marks 60 years since attack on Civil Rights marchers in Selma
Friday marks 60 years since “Bloody Sunday,” a major turning point in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. On March 7, 1965, hundreds of civil rights advocates, including late Congressman ...
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Commemorating 60 years since 'Bloody Sunday' and the fight for voting rights
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — Sixty years ago, civil rights leaders and nonviolent activists tried to march from Selma to Montgomery in the fight for the right to vote. On March 7, 1965, 600 civil ...
‘Bloody Sunday’ 60th anniversary marked in Selma with remembrances and concerns about the future
Alabama this weekend is marking the 60th anniversary of a key event in the civil rights movement, when voting rights marchers ...
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1965 voter registration volunteers urge youth to keep civil rights momentum going
The 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday saw a large turnout at Selma High School, with civil rights activists and SCOPE members gathering to commemorate the event. John Reynolds, a former SCOPE ...
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60 years after ‘Bloody Sunday,’ leaders say voting rights and racial equality have declined
Civil rights leaders and elected officials commemorated on Friday the 60th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” the day voting and civil rights activists were violently beaten and injured by law ...