From history that looks different to us now through our pandemic eyes. But have a look. Here it is. This is closing time at the polls in birmingham, alabama, in may of 1966 because we are all now citizens of pandemic 2020, you see a photo of anybody crowded together like this anymore and it flips your stomach over a little bit, right . Youre too close together. Nobodys got a mask. It activates something in us now to see that. But there they are, a thousand people or more all crowded into that one alabama polling place, may 3rd, 1966 in birmingham. Cant do that nowadays for any reason. But theres something important to know about this photo, both for then and for us now. Again, that photo is 1966. The year before that photo was taken in alabama, the future congressman john lewis was very nearly killed while he was trying to lead a march for Voting Rights across the Edmund Pettus bridge at selma, alabama. John lewis and his fellow marchers, black and white, mostly black, were set upon by
We continue on, youre watching cnn, im Brooke Baldwin. Thank you for being with us. Any moment now, just a heads up to you, we are awaiting to see Hillary Clinton step up there in dade city, florida, and address the cloud. Her stop in dade city, by the way, is one of three stops she is making today in this one key state of florida as we are now officially in the home stretch of a pretty intense election season, we can say. Heres the map for you. You can see whos out for everyone. Hillary clinton, her top surrogates as well as donald trump, mike pence theyre over the country crisscrossing several key states as cnns poll of polls shows the race is tightening nationally. Look at these numbers, seven days to go. In this final week, Hillary Clinton is trying to shift the focus back to her qualifications and away from that latest email controversy involving a top ade. She just released a new ad attacking trumps character. Putting a wife to work is a very dangerous thing. When i come home and
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