58 years ago the first week of March 1965, in Selma, AL, USA, 600 Americans started a 50-mile march towards AL state capitol of Montgomery. They were protesting laws that prevented Black Americans from exercising voting rights. Predictably, as the demonstrators walked to the Edmund Pettus Bridge, Alabama State troopers used menacing, violence, and tear gas to disperse them.
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LBJ Remarks
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