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61st anniversary of Bloody Sunday sees worries about future of voting rights and calls to action

SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Last weekend, 61 years after state troopers attacked civil rights marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, thousands gathered in the Alabama city amid new concerns about the future of the Voting Rights Act. The March 7, 1965, violence that became known as Bloody Sunday shocked the nation and helped […]

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