PrivacyDigest<p>Anniversary of ‘Bloody Sunday’ Marks Continued Fight for <a href="https://mas.to/tags/VotingRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VotingRights</span></a> <br> <br>Sixty years ago, on March 7, 1965, hundreds of <a href="https://mas.to/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilRights</span></a> activists, also known as foot soldiers, marched from <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Selma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Selma</span></a> to <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Montgomery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Montgomery</span></a> , <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Alabama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alabama</span></a> to fight for the right to <a href="https://mas.to/tags/vote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vote</span></a> for Black people. As they marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, Alabama State Troopers brutally beat them. The violence these activists endured became synonymous with the struggle for Black enfranchisement.<br><a href="https://mas.to/tags/rights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rights</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.aclu.org/news/voting-rights/anniversary-of-bloody-sunday-marks-continued-fight-for-voting-rights" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">aclu.org/news/voting-rights/an</span><span class="invisible">niversary-of-bloody-sunday-marks-continued-fight-for-voting-rights</span></a></p>