In Selma, the group crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where in 1965 some 600 Civil Rights marchers for voting rights were brutally attacked by law enforcement.
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Ttremendous progress has been made on so many levels” to combat the evil of racism, but it continues because “the problem is in essence a problem of the heart.”
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President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law Aug. 6, 1965, surrounded by many Civil Rights leaders who had fought hard for its passage.
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(OSV News) — The words of slain civil rights leader Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. continue to challenge all “to live out the principle of solidarity and human dignity,” said …
