From Selma to Shelby County: Working Together to Restore the Protections of the Voting Rights Act

by Committee on the Judiciary United States and U.S. Committee on the Judiciary

From its inception and through several reauthorizations, the Voting Rights Act has always been a bipartisan effort. The historic struggle for individual voting rights reached a turning point on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on March 7, 1965. A group of peaceful marchers led by a young John Lewis were brutally attacked by State troopers. We call it "Bloody Sunday" today from the graphic photographs, and it became a catalyst for the passage...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1508820759
• ISBN13: 9781508820758
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.5" x 11.0"