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Article: Demonstrators in Selma mark 30th anniversary of march across Edmund Pettus Bridge. (Selma, Alabama)
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- Jet
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- March 27, 1995
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With many more bridges to cross in the struggle for Black equality, four members of Congress recently led about 2,000 marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, AL, to mark the 30th anniversary of the voting rights march there.
U.S. Rep. John Lewis, who was on the frontline and beaten bloody by state troopers three decades ago, was joined by Reps. Cynthia McKinney, Earl Hilliard and Eva Clayton, Coretta Scott King and Martin Luther King III as well as a throng of supporters in commemorating a milestone in the civil rights struggle.
It was March 7, 1965 that White lawmen beat and gassed hundreds of marchers trying to cross Pettus Bridge. Footage of the ...