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Edmund Pettus Bridge, Selma, Alabama -2013 (Original Post) bigtree Mar 2013 OP
We must never forget Bloody Sunday. DreamGypsy Mar 2013 #1
Biden leads re-enactment of voting rights march struggle4progress Mar 2013 #2
The right to vote--precious more than gold! lastlib Mar 2013 #3
Once we had giants... CTyankee Mar 2013 #4
K&R for those that had the courage to act. nt Mnemosyne Mar 2013 #5

struggle4progress

(118,041 posts)
2. Biden leads re-enactment of voting rights march
Sun Mar 3, 2013, 07:03 PM
Mar 2013

By PHILLIP RAWLS, Associated Press | March 3, 2013 | Updated: March 3, 2013 4:12pm

... More than 5,000 people followed Vice President Joe Biden and U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma's annual Bridge Crossing Jubilee. The event commemorates the "Bloody Sunday" beating of voting rights marchers — including a young Lewis — by state troopers as they began a march to Montgomery in March 1965. The 50-mile march prompted Congress to pass the Voting Rights Act that struck down impediments to voting by African-Americans and ended all-white rule in the South ...

"We will never give up or give in," Lewis told marchers ...

"We've had the right to vote 48 years, but they've never stopping trying to diminish the impact of the votes," Jackson said ...

http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Biden-leads-re-enactment-of-voting-rights-march-4324215.php

lastlib

(22,981 posts)
3. The right to vote--precious more than gold!
Sun Mar 3, 2013, 07:14 PM
Mar 2013

Eternal thanks to the original marchers who fought for it!

CTyankee

(63,771 posts)
4. Once we had giants...
Sun Mar 3, 2013, 07:14 PM
Mar 2013

I see them in wheelchair and with canes and I marvel at this American wonder. They changed America for the better and the good. We are greater because of these women and men who had such courage against such threats. The republicans should die of shame looking at this...

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