By Rev. Dr. Wendell Anthony, Guest Columnist

Sixty years ago, March 15, 1965, President Lyndon Baines Johnson, during a Joint Session of Congress said, “ At times history and fate meet at a single time, in a single place, to shape a turning point in a man’s unyielding search for freedom. So it was at Lexington and Concord. So it was century ago at Appomattox, so it was last week in Selma, Alabama .”

This came shortly after “Bloody Sunday,” March 7, where civil rights activists peacefully marching for the right to vote were beaten and bloodied attempting to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge. This march helped to build an unstoppable determination, leading to the passage of the Voting Rights Act by the U.S. Senate August 4, and signed into law by President Lyndon Baines Johnson August 6, 19

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