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PHOTO: VP and @repjohnlewis join in the annual crossing of the Edmund Pettus Bridge today in Selma, Alabama. pic.twitter.com/BiWIzbcFGg
DreamGypsy
(2,252 posts)March 7, 1965.
struggle4progress
(118,041 posts)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)Eternal thanks to the original marchers who fought for it!
CTyankee
(63,771 posts)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...