Decades after violence in Selma spurred the Voting Rights Act, organizers worry about its fate

Decades after violence in Selma spurred the Voting Rights Act, organizers worry about its fate

SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Sixty-one years after state troopers attacked Civil Rights marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, thousands are gathering in the Alabama city this weekend, amid new concerns about the future of the Voting Rights Act. The March 7, 1965, violence that became known as Bloody...

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