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Civil Rights Groups Promote John Lewis Voting Rights Act on 60th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday

HeadlineMar 07, 2025

Sixty years ago today, civil rights leader John Lewis led hundreds of voting rights activists over the Edmund Pettus Bridge marching from Selma to Montgomery for voting rights. Alabama state troopers beat them mercilessly. It would be a turning point in the civil rights movement. Five months later, President Lyndon B. Johnson would sign the Voting Rights Act into law. Today, civil rights groups are calling on lawmakers to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act at a time when voting rights are facing unprecedented federal threats.

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