MSNBC MTP Daily March 4, 2022 18:52:00
Welcome back. vice president kamala harris heads to selma, alabama, this weekend. it is to mark the 57th anniversary of bloody sunday. the anniversary commemorates a turning point in the fight for civil rights when activists john lewis and jose williams led hundreds of marchers across the edmond pettus bridge. john lewis, then only 25, suffered a fractured skull. two weeks later, martin luther king jr. led another symbolic march across that bridge. five months later, the voting rights act of 1965 was signed into law. this will be the second anniversary of bloody sunday since the passing of con...