Rev. Al Sharpton from Selma, Alabama 3/3 with Vice President Harris
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Mar 04, 2024
Highlights of Rev. Al Sharpton from Selma, Alabama 3/3 with Vice President Harris and a host of elected officials, Selma foot soldiers, clergy, national/local community leaders, and activists as they commemorated the 59th anniversary of Bloody Sunday. Today’s effort served as a galvanization in the fight to protect voting rights and diversity in Corporate America, which have been continuously attacked by right-wing legal activists.
Rev travels to Selma for the commemoration annually to march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where in 1965 police brutally attacked peaceful voting rights activists led by John Lewis. The assault served as a catalyst for President Johnson to prioritize the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965. Yet the promise and the safeguards of that legislation have been gutted for over a decade, following the Supreme Court’s crushing Shelby v. Holder decision.
Too much blood has been shed for our right to vote, we must not let any of it be in vain.
