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Silent march to spotlight threats to voting rights

A number of local organizations are marking the anniversary of Bloody Sunday next month with a silent march. On Sunday, March 7, 1965, more than 500 peaceful marchers, led by John Lewis (now a U.S. Congressman) of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee SNCC, left Selma, Ala. for Montgomery, Ala. They were protesting the denial of their […]