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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and his demonstrators stream over an Alabama River bridge at the city limits of Selma, Ala., ...
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60 years after Bloody Sunday in Alabama, elusive racial progress in Selma
Events in Selma, Ala. six decades ago helped win support for the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Today local activists say they're ...
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60 years after Bloody Sunday in Alabama, elusive racial progress in Selma
Events in Selma, Ala. six decades ago helped win support for the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Today local activists say they're still fighting stubborn... 60 years after Bloody Sunday in Alabama ...
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60 years after Bloody Sunday in Alabama, elusive racial progress in Selma
Her mother, for instance, became the first Black city councilwoman in Selma. It's not lost on Sewell that her career is built on the sacrifice of those who fought 60 years ago. "I know that I get ...
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60 years after Bloody Sunday in Alabama, elusive racial progress in Selma
LBJ signed the 1965 Voting Rights Act into law later that year ... Iconic Selma Bridge The Edmund Pettus Bridge is a sacred place in America's civil rights history. It also was named after ...
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60 years after Bloody Sunday in Alabama, elusive racial progress in Selma
LBJ signed the 1965 Voting Rights Act into law later that year. "What took place on that bridge literally changed the face of American politics," says Alabama Democrat Terri Sewell, who grew up in ...