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201946 minPG-13documentary

After Selma

201946 minPG-13documentary

Six hundred citizens marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in 1965, facing tear gas and police on horseback in their fight for voting rights.

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Loki Mulholland

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Six hundred citizens marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in 1965, facing tear gas and police on horseback in their fight for voting rights.

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Loki Mulhollanddirector

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Joanne Blackmon Bland recalls the events of March 7, 1965, when six hundred marchers faced police violence on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. This moment marked a turning point in the fight for voting rights. Since then, efforts to suppress those rights have persisted across the United States. Filmmaker Loki Mulholland and author Carol Anderson join Bland to discuss the ongoing challenges to democracy and the necessity of confronting voter suppression.

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