Today, Sunday, March 7, is the 56th anniversary of the march over the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama. John Lewis, having died last summer, is not with us this year. The attack on the marchers by state troopers on "Bloody Sunday" 1965 awakened a nation then. The sweeping Voters Rights Act was passed later that year.
Today over 40 states are trying to pass--and many succeeding--voter suppression laws. The U.S. House of Representatives this week passed HR 1, a voting rights bill, so essential now. But it faces fierce opposition in the Senate.
The nation has gone through a bloody year of brutality against African Americans. Are we as a nation awakened? Can we care enough, work hard enough, to reject voter suppression bills this year? Can we care enough, work hard enough to secure voting rights for all this year?
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