SELMA, Ala. — President Joe Biden is set to pay tribute to the heroes of “Bloody Sunday,” joining thousands for the annual commemoration of the seminal moment in the civil rights movement that led to passage of landmark voting rights legislation nearly 60 years ago. The visit to Selma, Alabama,
By Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden will visit Alabama on Sunday to commemorate the 58th anniversary of the landmark Bloody Sunday march that galvanized the Civil Rights movement and helped lead to an expansion of voting rights.
SELMA, Alabama -- President Joe Biden arrived in Alabama Sunday to press his case for stronger voting rights during a visit to commemorate the 58th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday," when
President Joe Biden Sunday praised the courage of civil rights activists and condemned efforts to restrict voting and attack the election process in a speech commemorating the 58th anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma.
“Selma is a reckoning. The right to vote... to have your vote counted is the threshold of democracy and liberty,” Biden told a crowd of several thousand people seated on one side of the historic Edmund Pettus Bridge. | Politics
President Joe Biden Sunday praised the courage of civil rights activists and condemned efforts to restrict voting and attack the election process in a speech commemorating the 58th anniversary of
SELMA, Ala. -- President Joe Biden used the searing memories of Selma's "Bloody Sunday" to recommit to a cornerstone of democracy, lionizing a seminal moment from the civil rights movement at a time when he has been unable to push enhanced voting protections through Congress and a conservative Supre…