Vice President Kamala Harris will travel to Selma, Alabama, where she will walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge to mark the 57th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, a key moment in the civil rights moment.
Harris will speak in Selma, Alabama on Sunday to mark the 57th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday." That is the day in 1965 when white police attacked Black voting rights marchers attempting to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
At the Edmund Pettus Bridge, state and local lawmen attacked the marchers with billy clubs and tear gas, driving them back to Selma. Seventeen people were hospitalized and dozens were more injured by police. The images of the violence shocked a nation and helped galvanize support for passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.The vice president will also meet with civil rights leaders and deliver remarks while in Alabama, according to the White House
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