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Vice President Kamala Harris is traveling to Alabama this weekend to commemorate Bloody Sunday in Selma. alnews bloodysunday selma alabamanewsnetwork

Harris will also take part in the symbolic march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge.

On March 7, 1965, Alabama state troopers beat and tear-gassed hundreds of demonstrators. Outrage over the beatings helped galvanize support for the passage of the Voting Rights Act later that year. The Vice President will be joined by Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Marcia Fudge, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan and Deputy Secretary of Veteran Affairs Donald Remy.

 

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Remembering the Mar. 7, 1965 march on the Edmund Pettus Bridge.

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