and our traditions to our children. we will in other words be proud of our country. promote our history my hunch is if you re not a straight, white, cisgender mail, trumps our does not include you. like andrés, president biden and civil rights leaders today are marking the 50th anniversary of the march is from selma to montgomery, alabama. what became known as bloody sunday was meant to be a peaceful march for voting rights led by a young activist named john louis. after the nonviolent marchers crossed the edmund pettus bridge, police beat them in a flurry of tear gas, buttons, and other forms of violence delivered from horseback. march 7th, 1965 proved to be a pivotal moment in the civil rights movement as the voting rights act of 1965 was passed just five months later.
anniversary of bloody sunday. he was there in 1965 that riot police attacked a peaceful march as they crossed the edmund pettus bridge into town. today the bridge is a potent symbol of the civil rights legacy. this will be biden s third visit to selma for the anniversary and his first as president. he most recently attended a ceremony in 2020, when he was running for president. biden also participated in a commemorative march in 2013 when he was vice president. one month after a toxic train derailment in east palestine, ohio, there s been another norfolk southern derailment in the state. it happened in saturday in springfield in the western part of ohio, several hours away from east palestine. according to norfolk southern, there were no injuries reported and no hazardous materials were involved. one witness described what he saw. so i was watching it and people are just sitting there. and you could kind of see it like off the tracks, kicking up gravel and stuff. but once the cars
a grand dragon of the kkk. over the years many movementhe t barack obama on the 50th anniversary of 2015 as have other civil rights leaders including the vice president kamala harris who was just here one year ago to commemorate this solemn anniversary. she put out a statement today. it goes to the historical aspect of what we are going to see behind me today. with their reenactment of this. brave souls set out to secure one of the most sacred freedoms the right to vote on the bridge there. peaceful march met with crushing violence. only 25 beaten and suffered a fractured school. those brave marchers were pushed back but they continued to march forward. making the pilgrimage many years
, we want to make sure that we continue to underscore the attack on women s rights to mak their health their own this is something that the biden and harris administration has taken very seriously. this is something that we are going to continue to ask congress to make sure that they take actions on this as well. we go through the next couple o days into being what would have been the 50th anniversary of ro v wade. this is a critical. they made themselves clear, the want us to make sure here in congress and at the white house and the federal government that we protect people s rights and they want to see that. that is how we see that march for life again, we support peaceful peaceful speech, a peaceful march, even though we
don t agree with the particular policy. anybody who wants to go cove the president you are free to d so. if you are confirmed. in others if folks are registered and confirmed, feel free. the vice president, she as giving the speech. you have seen the vice president to be a leader on thi issue over the last several months since the decision came back this past summer break it not unusual i had mentioned tha after florida was the first dat she visited after the dobbs decision so she is going back. the importance of florida, the importance of where he is located in the border states around it and why we think it i important and why she thinks it s important to make that speech in tallahassee on sunday. again, the vice president has been a leader you have heard