Edmund Pettus BridgeSelma, Alabama 3:07 P.M. CST THE PRESIDENT: Hello, hello, hello! Please. Oh, you see all those folks out there. Hey, everybody. How are you? (Applause.) Selma is here! Well, before I be- — please, have a seat, if you have one. I once said that, “Have a seat if you have one,” and the press... Day: March 5, 2023
Edmund Pettus BridgeSelma, Alabama 3:07 P.M. CST THE PRESIDENT: Hello, hello, hello! Please. Oh, you see all those folks out there. Hey, everybody. How are you? (Applause.) Selma is here! Well, before I be- — please, have a seat, if you have one. I once said that, “Have a seat if you have one,” and the press... Today, President Biden is traveling to Selma, Alabama to commemorate the 58th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday. In 1965, John Lewis and other civil rights leaders led peaceful protestors demanding voting rights in a march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where they were brutally beaten by state troopers. The Nation’s reaction to Bloody Sunday helped produce... Fifty-eight years ago, six hundred brave souls set out from Selma, Alabama to secure one of our most sacred freedoms: the right to vote. On the Edmund Pettus Bridge, their peaceful march was met with crushing violence. The late congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis, then only twenty-five, was beaten and suffered a fractured... 