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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Kim Chandler and Safiyah Riddle

'Bloody Sunday' 60th anniversary marked in Selma with remembrances and concerns about the future

APTOPIX Bloody Sunday Commemoration - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

Charles Mauldin was near the front of a line of voting rights marchers walking in pairs across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on March 7, 1965.

The marchers were protesting white officials’ refusal to allow Black Alabamians to register to vote, as well as the killing days earlier of Jimmie Lee Jackson, a minister and voting rights organizer who was shot by a state trooper in nearby Marion.

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