Decades After Bloody Sunday, Is Trump Taking Civil Rights Back to Before Selma in ‘65?
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60 years ago in Selma, Alabama, state troopers beat peaceful protesters bloody on the Edmund Pettus Bridge as they marched for civil rights. The horror of “Bloody Sunday” and the resilience of the Civil Rights Movement ultimately led to the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and many of the landmark achievements that are now directly under attack. As civil rights activists look to history to understand — and prepare for — the present, Laura walks the Bridge and talks with, among others, Sheyann Webb-Christburg, who marched at the age of eight, Black Voters Matter co-founders LaTosha Brown and Clifford Albright; law professor and author Kimberlé Crenshaw and Maya Wiley, President and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. What does people power look like today? Plus, a commentary from Laura on name calling then and now.
“We're not going to phone bank our way out of this. We're not going to text our way out of this. And in truth, we're not even going to vote our way out of this . . . It's going to take revisiting some of the same strategies that we saw here in Selma, in terms of nonviolent civil disobedience and direct action.” - Clifford Albright
“We're seeing a bill that the Republicans are supporting right now that will cut $800 million from Medicaid. What we're seeing is the demonized poor people and working class folks. But we're gonna stop . . . We are literally gonna stand on the space that if we are the wealthiest in the world, then we need to be the healthiest in the world.” - LaTosha Brown
“When we see and hear and think about fascism, we think about anti-democratic movements in Europe. We think about the Holocaust . . . But for Black people, as Langston Hughes said, you don't have to explain to us what fascism is. We experienced it. That is what we were fighting, for the 60, 70 years after Reconstruction was overthrown.” - Kimberlé Crenshaw
GUESTS:
Clifford Albright: Co-Founder & Executive Director, Black Voters Matter
Willard and Kiba Armstead: Veteran & Spouse
Trayvon Bossa: Sigma Chapter Member, Miles College Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity
LaTosha Brown: Co-Founder, Black Voters Matter
Kimberlé Crenshaw: Co-Founder & Executive Director, African American Policy Forum
Noelle Damico: Director of Social Justice, The Workers Circle
Melinda Hicks: Military Family
Jaribu Hill: Executive Director & Founder, Mississippi Workers’ Center for Human Rights
Myla Person: Jack and Jill Club, Columbus, Georgia
Ann Toback: CEO, The Workers Circle
Sheyann Webb-Christburg: Youngest Participant,1965 Bloody Sunday March
Maya Wiley: President & CEO, Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
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0:00 - Civil Rights Under Attack
5:03 - Commemorating Bloody Sunday
11:17 - Black Voters Matter
16:47 - History and the Lessons of Fascism
21:03 - What Resistance Looks Like