President Joe Biden arrived in Alabama on Sunday morning and addressed the crowd soon before the crossing, speaking to the nation about the protection and expansion of voting rights.
NEW!Marchers crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma today to commemorate the 58th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” the day in 1965 that white police beat Black civil rights marchers as they attempted to cross the bridge to gain the right to vote.
The president also spoke on banning assault weapons, better funding for HBCUs and called on congress to restore the full child tax credit. The president walked alongside foot soldiers from the civil rights movement like Bernard Lafayette and local and national lawmakers, including Montgomery mayor Steven Reed, U.S. Senator Rapahel Warnock, former senator Doug Jones and U.S. House of Representatives members Maxine Waters, Sheila Jackson Lee and Jim Clyburn.
The EF-2 tornado that hit Selma mostly avoided the parts of the city where the Jubilee events are held, but ultimately destroyed about 40% of neighborhoods and displaced hundreds of residents, according to the mayor. Some of the people who lost their homes have been staying in hotels, but were again displaced this weekend when visitors came from out of town.
The mayor predicts about 70% of the storm debris has been picked up ahead of the Jubilee. A feat, he said, that would not have been possible without the declaration from the president and federal government to reimburse all of the city’s cleanup efforts.
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