Vice President Kamala Harris returns to Selma to mark 'Bloody Sunday' anniversary
Posted on AllSides March 3rd, 2024
From The Left
She's expected to call on Congress to pass a new voting rights bill. Vice President Kamala Harris will speak on Sunday afternoon in Selma, Alabama, to mark the 59th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday," a milestone moment in the civil rights movement. She'll participate in the annual crossing jubilee of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, originally named after a Confederate general, where Alabama state troopers infamously attacked Black demonstrators as they marched for voting rights on March 7, 1965. The brutality stunned many across the country and galvanized support for the landmark...