Sixty Years After Selma: The Unfinished Fight for Voting Rights and Equality.

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Sixty Years After Selma: The Unfinished Fight for Voting Rights and Equality.

Voting rights remain under attack, and voting rights protections, including those created in the 1965 Voting Rights Act, have continued to be weakened. And we remain in desperate need of more leaders who will not fear to do justly, love mercy and walk humbly with their God. But the courage that propelled the Selma marchers forward in the face of brutal systemic resistance must keep pushing all Americans closer to the day our nation finally realizes President Johnson’s American promise and King’s American dream.

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