Vice President Kamala Harris is in Selma, Alabama, to mark the anniversary of a defining moment in the fight for equal voting rights.
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks near the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., on the anniversary of"Bloody Sunday," a landmark event of the civil rights movement, Sunday, March 6, 2022.
President Joe Biden on Sunday renewed his call for the passage of voting legislation, saying the groundbreaking 1965 Voting Rights Act “has been weakened not by brute force, but by insidious court decisions.” Two women who fled the violence said having a Black woman as vice president seemed unimaginable 57 years ago.“That’s why we marched,” said Betty Boynton, the daughter-in-law of voting rights activist Amelia Boynton.
“And now they are trying to take our voting rights from us. I wouldn’t think in 2022 we would have to do all over again what we did in 1965,” Boynton said.
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