Vice President Kamala Harris is in Selma, Alabama, to mark the anniversary of a defining moment in the fight for equal voting rights
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks near the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., on the anniversary of"Bloody Sunday," a landmark event of the civil rights movement, Sunday, March 6, 2022. SELMA, Ala.
The nation’s first female vice president — as well as the first African American and Indian American in the role — spoke of marchers whose “peaceful protest was met with crushing violence. They were kneeling when the state troopers charged. They were praying when the billy clubs struck.” The proposed legislation is named for Lewis, who died in 2020, and is part of a broader elections package that collapsed in the U.S. Senate in February.
“That’s why we marched,” said Betty Boynton, the daughter-in-law of voting rights activist Amelia Boynton. “And now they are trying to take our voting rights from us. I wouldn’t think in 2022 we would have to do all over again what we did in 1965,” Boynton said.
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