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FILE - In this March 24, 1965, file photo, civil rights marchers carry flags and play the flute as they approach their goal from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama's state Capitol. A new online project by the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University seeks to bring the lessons of voting rights to students. The center unveiled in March 2020 Selma Online?. Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. says the project will engage students at home because of the coronavirus outbreak and comes as the nation prepares for a presidential election. (AP Photo, File)

FILE - In this March 24, 1965, file photo, civil rights marchers carry flags and play the flute as they approach their goal from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama's state Capitol. A new online project by the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University seeks to bring the lessons of voting rights to students. The center unveiled in March 2020 Selma Online?. Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. says the project will engage students at home becaus…

March 20, 2020

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Selma Online offers free civil rights lessons amid virus
March 20, 2020 1:13 a.m.

Selma Online offers free civil rights lessons amid virus

RIO RANCHO, N.M. (AP) — The first attempt of the historic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965, led to police violence against peaceful African American demonstrators. The beatings, known as “Bloody Sunday,” generated anger across the nation 55 years ago this month and prompted President Lyndon Johnson to push the Voting Rights Act through Congress.