Vice President Kamala Harris will travel to Selma, Alabama, on Sunday to commemorate the 59th anniversary of a landmark civil rights moment.Harris will speak as
FILE - Vice President Joe Biden and U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., lead a group across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., on March 3, 2013. Vice President Kamala Harris is traveling to Alabama this weekend to commemorate a key moment of the civil rights movement. Harris will speak in Selma at an event marking the 57th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” the day in 1965 when white police attacked Black voting rights marchers.
Harris will speak as part of the annual remembrance of "Bloody Sunday," on the bridge where, on March 7, 1965, white state troopers attacked Black voting rights marchers attempting to cross.
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