MSNBC The Rachel Maddow Show October 28, 2020 04:02:00
Voting rights across the edmund pettus bridge at selma, alabama. john lewis and his fellow marchers, black and white, mostly black, were set upon by the state troopers. the violence that day against the marchers was horrifying. it turned out the country was watching as it happened, and that blood bath on the bridge in selma led directly to the passage and then the signing a few months later of the national voting rights act. president lyndon johnson signed that law in considerable part because of the horrific blood sacrifices of those peaceful marchers. president johnson signed that law to try...