On 61st anniversary of Bloody Sunday, worries about the future of voting rights and calls to action

Source Chicago Tribune
Original Load Date March 8, 2026, 7 p.m.
Last Updated March 8, 2026, 7 p.m.
Original URL https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/08/bloody-sunday-anniversary-voting-rights/

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SELMA, Ala. — Sixty-one years after state troopers attacked Civil Rights marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, thousands gathered in the Alabama city this weekend amid new concerns about the future of the Voting Rights Act. The March 7, 1965, violence that became known as Bloody Sunday sho...