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Presidential Democratic Candidates March Across Edmund Pettus Bridge Marking 55th Anniversary Of Selma's Bloody Sunday
Lesson Plan March 07 2025

Lesson plan: Enduring significance of the Selma to Montgomery March

Mark the anniversary of the Selma March and watch these clips from the movie 'Selma'
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Daily Video October 24 2018

Monitoring the Midterms: Voter ID laws and America's history of voter suppression
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Daily Video March 14 2017

Federal courts rules Texas gerrymandering unconstitutional
A panel of federal judges in Texas ordered the state to redraw its congressional district map because it discriminates against Hispanic voters.
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Daily Video March 09 2015

How have voting rights changed in the past 50 years?

The 50th anniversary of the marches for voting rights in Selma, Alabama, brought a new focus to the relationship between race and voting today.

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