Jesse SchecknerMarch 7, 2023
6min0
She cites a far more recent push by the Florida GOP to stifle voter access as cause.
Tag: Bloody Sunday
Jesse SchecknerMarch 7, 2023
Associated PressMarch 7, 2021
5min1279
'Every eligible voter should be able to vote.'
Scott PowersJanuary 17, 2021
5min1950
Targets Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz, Ron Johnson, and Kevin McCarthy.
Daniel TilsonMarch 8, 20156min179
You’d think 50 years was long enough for Florida lawmakers to get something right. But when it comes to ensuring all Floridians have equal opportunity to exercise their right to vote, and then overwhelmingly choose to use it, most of us know we’ve still got a long way to go. Here we are, fresh off […]
Peter SchorschMarch 8, 2015
2min263
Representative Gwen Graham traveled to Selma, Alabama, this weekend, to mark the 50th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday Attack on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Graham attended a service at Brown Chapel AME Church, a wreath-laying ceremony at the Civil Rights Memorial, and she joined Rep. John Lewis in a march across the landmark bridge. “It was an […]
Susan ClaryFebruary 16, 20155min229
I finally saw “Selma.” The Oscar-nominated film depicts Dr. Martin Luther King’s push for passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act – the federal legislation that was a crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement. Many protesters, both black and white, were sacrificed during the brutal efforts to make the 54-mile march from Selma, Alabama, […]