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Juma Sei

How this year's Selma Bridge Crossing could mark a community renaissance

This 150-year-old home lost its roof during the January tornado in Selma, Ala. (Kyle Gassiott/Troy Public Radio)

SELMA, Ala. — President Biden will be in Alabama today for the annual commemoration of "Bloody Sunday," the infamous day in 1965 when some 600 civil rights marchers headed east from Selma in support of voting rights. The marchers only made it six blocks to the Edmund Pettus Bridge before they were attacked by state and local lawmen, driving them back into the city.

As they always do in the annual tribute, people will be making a symbolic crossing.

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