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Biden signs executive order promoting voting rights on 56th anniversary of 'Bloody Sunday'


Biden signs executive order promoting voting rights on 56th anniversary of Bloody Sunday
Felicia Sonmez and Amy Gardner, The Washington Post
March 7, 2021
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WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden on Sunday signed an executive order aimed at promoting voting rights amid a push by Republican-led state legislatures to roll back voting access in the wake of former president Donald Trump s 2020 loss and his baseless effort to cast doubt on the integrity of U.S. elections.
The order comes on the 56th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the day on which state troopers violently beat hundreds of marchers, including John Lewis, the late civil rights icon and Democratic congressman from Georgia, on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala. ....

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'Voter suppression is still alive and well': Bloody Sunday anniversary event honors late civil rights giants


Voter suppression is still alive and well : Bloody Sunday anniversary event honors late civil rights giants
Updated: 6:54 PM CST Mar 7, 2021
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Updated: 6:54 PM CST Mar 7, 2021
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TAKE ON THIS PEOPLE WAS FACE-TO-FACE. IMAGES LIKE THIS WERE ALL TOO COMMON AS AFRICAN-AMERICANS TRIED TO REGISTER TO VOTE. SHERIFF’S BLOCKING THE DOORS TO THE COURTHOUSE AS YOU GET READY TO VOTE THIS YEAR, WE ARE TAKING A LOOK AT THE CRUCIAL ROLE ALABAMA PLAYED IN MAKING THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT OF 1965 A REALITY. IAN REITZ TRAVELED TO SELMA TO LOOK AT HOW CERTAIN EVENTS IN OUR STATE LED TO CHANGE IN OUR NATION AND HOW THAT HISTORY IS BEING PRESERVED. I TURNED 12 JUST FOUR DAYS AFTER THE SELMA-MONTGOMERY MARCH. IAN: SAM WALKER LIVED SOME OF THE HISTORY ON DISPLAY AT THE NATIONAL VOTING RIGHTS MUSEUM AND INSTITUTE IN SELMA. AT 11-YEARS-OLD I GOT LOCKED IN ONE OF THESE CELLS TWO TIME. ....

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Roanoke memorial pays tribute to historic march while raising ongoing concerns


That puts the bridge which spans that distance at approximately one-tenth of a mile.
On Sunday afternoon, a crowd of roughly 80 people took that walk, and while it carried them only about a city block, their trek formed yet another facet in a far larger social mosaic, one that encompasses untold miles and which has extended now for 56 years.
The group was participating in a service, presented by the Roanoke Chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, to memorialize the demonstrations that commenced Mar. 7, 1965.
On that day, some 600 marchers set out from Selma, Alabama, bound for the state capitol in Montgomery more than 50 miles away, in an effort to demand equal voting rights for Black people. ....

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