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Survivors of “Bloody Sunday” Lead 60th Anniversary March Across Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge

HeadlineMar 10, 2025

Elected officials joined large crowds in Selma, Alabama, Sunday to march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, commemorating the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday. Eighty-five-year-old Spiver Gordon was one of those who followed the late civil rights leader turned Congressmember John Lewis across the bridge in 1965, when they were brutally attacked by Alabama state troopers.

Spiver Gordon: “There’s a different day, different flavor but the same labor. We’ve got Donald Trump now. And, of course, he’s trying to turn back the clock and trying to stop us from moving forward. But, of course, those of us who are of the movement know that we have to continue.”

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