Bloody Sunday became a turning point in the fight for voting rights. Footage of the beatings helped galvanize support for passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
This year’s commemoration comes as some states seek to roll back expanded early and mail-in voting access and efforts have been unsuccessful to restore a key section of the Voting Rights Act that required states with a history of discrimination to get federal approval for any changes to voting procedures.
“Those of us who are still living, particularly the young, need to take up the challenge and go forward because there is still so much to be done,” said former state Sen. Hank Sanders, one of the founders of the annual celebration. The event typically brings thousands of people to Selma. However, most of the events are being held virtually this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic.will be held as a drive-in event. The Rev. Bernard LaFayette, Martin Luther King III and the founders of the group Black Voters Matter will speak at the breakfast.
U.S. Sen Raphael Warnock of Georgia and U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn of South Carolina will also deliver remarks by video.
Everyone can vote legally.
A complete waste of time because the morons that benefited fr it, still Vote along color lines. Anyone that promises more Welfare gets their Vote. We should start allowing sheep 2 Vote.
If they really want to honor John Lewis, then march & fight to have his voting rights bill passed. Congress and Biden, pass this bill, NOW!
RIP
Bloody Sunday usually refers to the Bogside massacre in Northern Ireland in 1972
lies are about keeping control.. exposeHATE4PROFIT time to DefundFASCISTS BANKRUPTtheTRUMPS and ALL who support them. Accountability is key in 2021!!
I wish I could be there. I wish I had met at least one of them.
They won the right to vote 56 years ago and today the Republicans are working overtime to take that right away. What are the GOP going to do to them once that happens. I think we all know the answer to that !!!
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