60 years after ‘Bloody Sunday,’ leaders say voting rights and racial equality have declined
Civil rights leaders and elected officials commemorated on Friday the 60th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” the day voting and civil rights activists were violently beaten and injured by law enforcement officers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama while protesting the right to vote for Black Americans in the Jim Crow South. The bloody images of that day shared around the world helped to contribute to the larger movement’s achievement of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, marking a […]
