Three members of Congress accused the Trump administration of trying to erase part of Alabama’s history Saturday in speeches outside a Montgomery landmark of the Civil Rights Movement.

The bill, H.R. 14, would strengthen the legal protections against racial discrimination in voting and representation.

In a move to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday and the historic Selma to Montgomery March, U.S. Representative Terri Sewell (AL-07) has spearhea

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) welcomes the reintroduction of the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (VRAA) by Congresswoman Terri Sewell (AL-07). This bill, coinciding with the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday and the historic passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA),

On March 7, 1965, a march by over 500 civil rights demonstrators was violently broken up at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama; state troopers and a sheriff’s posse fired tear gas and beat marchers with batons in what became known as “Bloody Sunday.”

On Tuesday, the Trump administration shared a list of more than 440 federal properties it had identified to potentially offload, including the Freedom Rides Museum, after deeming the properties “not core to government operations.

The John and Lillian Miles Lewis Foundation has unveiled two new plaques to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the first Selma-to-Montgomery March.