Video: Stanford’s Clayborne Carson in Selma on the 50th anniversary of ‘Bloody Sunday’

CLAYBORNE CARSON, professor of history and director of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute at Stanford, was in Selma, Alabama, last weekend to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the day known as “Bloody Sunday,” when on March 7, 1965, voting rights activists were brutally attacked during a peaceful march. In this video, Carson says he hopes that those 600 marchers who helped bring about the Voting Rights Act of 1965 will serve as an inspiration to future generations and as a reminder that the struggle continues. Carson added that the Voting Rights Act did not guarantee voting rights into the future. “We had voting rights as African Americans after the Civil War, and they were slowly eroded. And what we see today is that slow erosion of those rights.” ...

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