Biden calls for more voting rights as he pays 'Bloody Sunday tribute

President Joe Biden paid tribute to "Bloody Sunday" heroes as he called for more voting rights in Selma, Alabama.
The black-and-white images that flickered across television sets from that Bloody Sunday in Selma horrified the nation. Alabama state troopers savagely clubbing peaceful marchers as they tried to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The screams of terror. The thick clouds of tear gas. The deputies on horseback, chasing frightened men, women and children back across the steel-arched structure. Beating them again and again with clubs, whips and rubber tubing wrapped in barbed wire. "On this bridge, blood was given to help redeem the soul of America," President Joe Biden said Sunday during remarks commemorating the voting-rights demonstration.

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