Saturday, March 8, was the 50th anniversary of the "Bloody Sunday" march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Television scenes of nonviolent demonstrators beaten by police shocked the nation. As the movieSelma details, the March played a critical role in the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
My father, Harry George Boyte, on the executive committee of Martin Luther King's organization theRead more...
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