FILE - In this Oct. 22, 2019, file photo, Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. listens during ceremonies on campus where W.E.B. Dubois Medals were awarded for contributions to black history and culture in Cambridge, Mass. Gates help lead a new project launched in March 2020 by the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University and a coalition of foundations to bring online, interactive lessons about Selma and voting rights to students who…
March 20, 2020
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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.