we began this weekend with the voting rights march in selma, alabama. commemorating the 50th anniversary of bloody sunday. a short time ago, president biden laid a crowd of hundreds across the edmund pettus bridge. we re still rights leaders were brutally beaten by police on march 7th, 1965. biden was also issuing a call to action as dozens of states pass voting rights protections. salma is a reckoning. a right to vote. a right to vote, to have your vote counted. it s the threshold of democracy and liberty. with that anything is possible. without it, without that right, nothing is possible. and this fundamental right remains under assault. in january, i signed electoral reform acts to protect the will of the people and the people transferring the transfer of power. we know that we must get the vote in congress. to pass the john lewis voting rights advancement act. let s get right to sell not where we find nbc news correspondent antonia hylton. good to see you, this is a
to deliver a speech at the foot of the bridge in selma, alabama. he will then make that historic walk over the bridge around 5 pm, eastern standard time. this, of course, is the 58th anniversary, 58 years since bloody sunday. that march on that day led by john louis, we all know it incredibly well. at the time, reverend jose williams, there was over 600 marchers on that bridge. and the aim on that day, of those marchers, was to go directly to the alabama governor, georgia wallace, on a 54 mile march from selma to the state capital of montgomery. but in fact, they did not finish that march when protesters were knocked to the ground on the other side of the bridge, hence why so many folks since that day march over that bridge on the anniversary of bloody sunday. the availed s in selma galvanized public opinion. on august 6th, 1965, we ll be following the events live throughout the day here on msnbc. the president, again, delivering those remarks at 3:30 pm at the hit of the bri
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