Selma and Bloody Sunday

Marchers for voting rights are beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, spurring the Voting Rights Act.

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The 1965 voting-rights marches dramatized.

Connections to other moments, systems, and investigations — the links rarely drawn together.

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The Voting Rights Act of 1965
The violence at Selma directly pressured Congress to pass the Voting Rights Act.

The violence at Selma directly pressured Congress to pass the Voting Rights Act.