
By Christopher Klein The assault on civil rights marchers in Selma, Alabama helped lead to the Voting Rights Act. Nearly a century after theĀ Confederacyās guns fell silent, the racial legacies ofĀ slaveryĀ andĀ ReconstructionĀ continued to reverberate loudly throughout Alabama in 1965. On March 7, 1965, when then-25-year-old activistĀ John LewisĀ led over 600 marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in
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