From Selma to Shelby County: Working Together to Restore the Protections of the Voting Rights Act

by Committee on the Judiciary United States and U.S. Committee on the Judiciary

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From its inception and through several reauthorizations, the Voting Rights Act has always been a bipartisan effort. The historic struggle for individual voting rights reached a turning point on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on March 7, 1965. A group of peaceful marchers led by a young John Lewis were brutally attacked by State troopers. We call it "Bloody Sunday" today from the graphic photographs, and it became a catalyst for the passage...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1508820759

ISBN13:9781508820758

Release Date:March 2015

Publisher:Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Length:300 Pages

Weight:1.54 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 8.5" x 11.0"

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