Charles Mauldin, on March 7, 1965, was near a number of voting rights walks along the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama.
The marchers protested the secondary and voting rights organized by the Black Alabamists of the Black Alabamists of the Black Alabamists, as well as the registration of the rights of voting rights.
In the apex of Span on the Alabama River, they saw them waiting for them: a line of government troops, deputies and horsemen. After approaching, law enforcement agencies gave a warning to collapse and then to cause violence.
“About a half-and-a-half after one-and-a-half, they also started to return us, women, women and children, women and children, women and children, women and children, women and children.
Selma Sunday celebrated his 60th anniversary of the collision, known as a bloody Sunday. The attack was shocked by the 1965 US Voting Rights Act of National and US Vote Rights Act. Black Americans called to recommend the fight for voting rights and to recommend the struggle for equality.
Note for motion soldiers, concerns about new voting restrictions and the efforts of the Trump management for the re-rederi of the federal agencies, said they said America democratic for everyone.
“It was not democracy for black people until this country happened,” said Mauldin spoke about voting rights. “And we still constantly fight to make a more specific reality for ourselves.”
Speaking in the city’s historical tabernacle Baptist Church, the right movement, home minorities leader Hakeem Jeffries, Selma’da’da’da’da’da’da’da’da nation changed, he said. However, he is income at a time when he is the “problem around” and “wants to whiten our history.” But he said, as bloody Sundays said.
“At the moment, we have a problem on all sides, we must press,” Jeffries, the crowd gathered for a large number of congresses and others.
US Representative Terry Sewell, D-pick.
Sewell noted the number of voting restrictions presented by the US Supreme Court, as the US Supreme Court has effectively revoked the main part of the voting rights required by the court’s discrimination with the history of new voting laws in advance
This week, Sewell repeated the legislation to restore the request. The proposal was repeatedly stopped at the congress. John Lewis, who is the late Georgia congressman, who is in the leadership of the late March, was named for John Lewis.
The annual celebration will result in a ceremony and march in front of the Edmund Pettus Bridge. At that time, they walked in pairs along the bloody Sunday during the break. Mauldin was in the third couple led by Lewis and Hosea Williams.
“We turned our nerves to a point where we had so many. The past was brave. We have identified and angry,” said Mauldin told Associated Press in an interview.
Mauldin, who took a blow to the head, said he believed that law enforcement officers tried to bring a riot because he attacked the marchers.
Kirk Carrington was only 13 on the bloody Sunday. As a spraying of violence, a white man using a stick returned to public housing projects inhabited by his family.
Carrington said his father returned from the service in World War II by his father’s white employers, he said he was found by his father’s white employers. 60 years ago, the tabernacle was trained in the tactical of non-violent protest tactics, which was brought to tears by thinking about what the people of his city achieved.
“When we started in March, we did not know what we wanted in America. After the growth, we grew up after the growth and said that it was not only in Selma, but in the whole world,” said Carrington.
Grew in Selma, Dawson passed a white person on the street to avoid eye contact, if they looked at the time, he remembers a period expected.
Dawson and Mauldin said they were worried about the potential demolition of the education department and worried about other changes from the federal agencies. Trump, the federal government encouraged a variety of variety, capital and insertion.
Support from the federal government “How black Americans will achieve justice, equality, because the residents will go to the rights of residents,” said Dawson.
“This is a tragedy after 60 years: We are now returning to the 1950s,” Dawson said.
