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A polling judge, right, helps guide a voter's ballot into a voting machine during the Pennsylvania primary election, at Mont Alto United Methodist Church in Alto, Pa., on May 17, 2022. Voter-by-voter electronic election records are not subject to public scrutiny, a Pennsylvania court ruled Monday, March 4, 2024, in a case that began with a request for those records by an election researcher whose work has fueled right-wing attacks on voting procedures. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Garland beefing up team to fight voter ID and drop-box limits, says laws suppress Black voters

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

The Rev. Al Sharpton, Vice President Kamala Harris Attorney Ben Crump and the second gentleman of the United States Douglas Emhoff walk with hundreds of people across the Edmund Pettus Bridge with others commemorating the 59th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday voting rights march in 1965, Sunday, March 3, 2024, in Selma, Ala. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

Kamala Harris leads Bloody Sunday memorial as marchers’ voices ring out for voting rights

By Kim Chandler - Associated Press

A vehicle passes by the town welcome sign, Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024, in Selma, Ala. Events commemorating the 59th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday voting rights march in 1965 will culminate with a bridge crossing in Selma, Ala, on Sunday, March 3. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

Attorney General Garland tells Alabama’s Bloody Sunday service that voting rights are under attack

By Kim Chandler - Associated Press

In an undated photo provided by Jawana Jackson, the Jackson House in Selma, Ala, which was home base for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., who along with other civil rights leaders, planned the Selma to Montgomery marches for Black voting rights, has been acquired by a historical museum in Michigan and will be moved to a site near Detroit for preservation. It will be dismantled starting this summer and trucked more than 800 miles north to The Henry Ford's Greenfield Village in Dearborn. The project is expected to take two to three years. (Jawana Jackson via AP)

House where MLK planned Alabama marches to be dismantled, moved to Michigan and rebuilt

By Corey Williams - Associated Press

Vice President Joe Biden and U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., lead a group across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., March 3, 2013. President Joe Biden on Sunday, March 5, 2023, is set to pay tribute to the heroes of “Blood Sunday," joining thousands for the annual commemoration of the seminal moment in the civil rights movement that led to passage of landmark voting rights legislation nearly 60 years ago. (AP Photo/Dave Martin, File)

Biden’s Selma visit puts spotlight back on voting rights

By Aamer Madhani and Kim Chandler - Associated Press

President Joe Biden walks across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., Sunday, March 5, 2023, to commemorate the 58th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday," a landmark event of the civil rights movement. With Biden is Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Ala., the Rev. Al Sharpton and the Rev. Jesse Jackson. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Biden vows new election laws in ‘Bloody Sunday’ speech, accuses GOP of assault on voting rights

By Joseph Clark and Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Devastation is seen in the aftermath from severe weather, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023, in Moundville, Ala. A giant, swirling storm system billowing across the South spurred a tornado on Thursday that shredded the walls of homes, toppled roofs and uprooted trees. (Mike Goodall via AP)

Tornado hits Selma, Alabama; 8 deaths reported across South

By Kim Chandler and Jeff Martin - Associated Press

Vice President Kamala Harris marches on the Edmund Pettus Bridge after speaking in Selma, Ala., on the anniversary of "Bloody Sunday," a landmark event of the civil rights movement, Sunday, March 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Kamala Harris marks ‘Bloody Sunday’ anniversary in Selma

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A brick base sits empty Tuesday, April 13, 2021, where chair carved out of limestone honoring Confederate President Jefferson Davis was stolen from Confederate Memorial Circle, a private section of Live Oak Cemetery in Selma, Ala. Police recovered the chair in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Kim Chandler)

Strange theft of Confederate chair mystifies Alabama town

By KIM CHANDLER and REBECCA SANTANA - Associated Press

Stolen Confederate monument recovered in New Orleans

By KIM CHANDLER - Associated Press

A man places flower petals on the Edmund Pettus Bridge ahead of Rep. John Lewis' casket crossing during a memorial service for Lewis, Sunday, July 26, 2020, in Selma, Ala. Lewis, who carried the struggle against racial discrimination from Southern battlegrounds of the 1960s to the halls of Congress, died Friday, July 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Body of civil rights icon John Lewis crosses Selma bridge

By KIM CHANDLER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 23, 1965, file photo, Wilson Baker, left foreground, public safety director, warns of the dangers of night demonstrations at the start of a march in Selma, Ala. Second from right foreground, is John Lewis of the Student Non-Violent Committee. Lewis, who carried the struggle against racial discrimination from Southern battlegrounds of the 1960s to the halls of Congress, died Friday, July 17, 2020. (AP Photo/File)

Rep. John Lewis remembered for legacy of ‘good trouble’

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

In this March 7, 2015, file photo, singing &quot;We Shall Overcome,&quot; President Barack Obama, third from left, walks holding hands with Amelia Boynton, who was beaten during &quot;Bloody Sunday,&quot; as they and the first family and others including Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga, left of Obama, walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., for the 50th anniversary of &quot;Bloody Sunday,&quot; a landmark event of the civil rights movement. Some residents in the landmark civil rights city of Selma, Ala., are among the critics of a bid to rename the historic bridge where voting rights marchers were beaten in 1965. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Move to rename ‘Bloody Sunday’ bridge has critics in Selma

By Jay Reeves - Associated Press

Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg walks across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., Sunday, March 1, 2020, to commemorate the 55th anniversary of &quot;Bloody Sunday,&quot; when white police attacked black marchers in Selma. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Bloomberg’s biggest test: Winning votes on Super Tuesday

By ALEXANDRA JAFFE and KATHLEEN RONAYNE - Associated Press

Stacey Abrams speaks at the unity breakfast Sunday, March 1, 2020, in Selma, Ala. (AP Photo/Butch Dill) ** FILE **

Biden warmly welcomed in Selma as Dems court black voters

By JAY REEVES - Associated Press

Alabama professors dig into civil rights slaying for podcast

By BRIAN EDWARDS - Associated Press

Selma receives $1 million emergency grant to target gangs

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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks during a commemorative service marking the anniversary of "Bloody Sunday" at Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma, Ala., Sunday, March 3, 2019. Several Democratic White House hopefuls are visiting one of America's seminal civil rights sites to pay homage to that legacy and highlight their own connections to the movement. (AP Photo/Julie Bennett)

Hillary Clinton uses Selma anniversary address to justify 2016 election loss

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Alabama’s capital city starts new year with Emancipation Day

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Alabama city to re-enact march that sparked “Bloody Sunday”

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