{"id":5488,"date":"2024-03-05T20:53:25","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T20:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=5488"},"modified":"2024-03-05T20:53:28","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T20:53:28","slug":"kamala-harris-commemorates-bloody-sunday-in-selma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2024\/03\/05\/kamala-harris-commemorates-bloody-sunday-in-selma\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamala Harris commemorates Bloody Sunday in Selma"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>SELMA, Ala. (<a href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TROJANVISION<\/a>) \u2014 Over the weekend, Vice President Kamala Harris was in Selma to commemorate the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.selmajubilee.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">59th annual Bloody Sunday Memorial March<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She, along with several guest speakers, remembered the fight for freedom that was fought in Selma years ago.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cShoulder to shoulder, they marched for the freedoms that were theirs by birth and theirs by right,\u201d Harris told the crowd. &#8220;The freedom to vote, the freedom to live without fear of violence or intimidation, the freedom to be full and equal members of our nation.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The annual bridge crossing is to memorialize the infamous march for Black voting rights in 1965. Thousands of people marched from Selma to Montgomery to stand up for their rights. Once they arrived, they were attacked while walking across the bridge.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/news\/selma-bloody-sunday-attack-civil-rights-movement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">READ MORE: The history behind Bloody Sunday<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThey were forced to retreat,\u201d Harris said. &#8220;Yet, they would not be deterred, defeated, or denied.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each year, people walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge to symbolize the fight for civil rights and equality. People come from all over the country to march across it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m 62 years old and I\u2019ve never missed crossing this bridge. I started with my parents back in the day,\u201d said Selma resident Alexanderr B. Austin. \u201cPeople risk their lives to be able to vote, and now, I\u2019m keeping that dream alive. I\u2019m going to try every time I do.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Harris reminded the crowd that the bridge represents the struggle for freedom that many continue to face.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFreedom is fundamental to the promise of America. Freedom is not to be given. It is not to be bestowed. It is ours by right.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next year will mark the 60<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the Bridge Crossing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SELMA, Ala. (TROJANVISION) \u2014 Over the weekend, Vice President Kamala Harris was in Selma to commemorate the 59th annual Bloody Sunday Memorial March.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She, along with several guest speakers, remembered the fight for freedom that was fought in Selma years ago.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShoulder to shoulder, they marched for the freedoms that were theirs by birth and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2024\/03\/05\/kamala-harris-commemorates-bloody-sunday-in-selma\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":5512,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1126],"tags":[1462,1461,1460,1459],"topics":[],"class_list":["post-5488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state-news","tag-bloody-sunday","tag-bridge-crossing","tag-selma","tag-vice-president-kamala-harris"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5488"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=5488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}