The story of Bloody Sunday and today’s pilgrimage to Selma

Update: 2019-04-25

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"I called it good trouble. I called it necessary trouble." Congressman John Lewis and others who were there recall marching across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., to protest the suppression of black votes.

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The story of Bloody Sunday and today’s pilgrimage to Selma

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The story of Bloody Sunday and today’s pilgrimage to Selma