APR s Pat Duggins
Federal agencies will take specific steps to promote access under a new executive order from President Joe Biden. The order comes as congressional Democrats press for a sweeping voting and elections bill to counter efforts to restrict voting access. Biden announced the plan during a recorded address on the 56th commemoration of the 1965 incident known as Bloody Sunday.
Some 600 civil-rights activists were viciously beaten by Alabama state troopers as they tried to march for voting rights in Selma, Alabama. Alabama Public Radio covered the 50th anniversary of the “bloody Sunday” attack during its international award-winning documentary “More Bridges To Cross.” Montgomery city council Bennie Lee Tucker served as the “human shield” of Dr. Martin Luther King, Junior in Selma in 1965. He told APR the voting rights marches were spurred by the shooting death of civil rights activist Jimmie Lee Jackson.
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