Debbie Elliott
Appearances
NPR News Now
NPR News: 03-07-2025 2PM EST
Protesters were starting a march from Selma to Montgomery to demand equal voting rights on March 7, 1965. But they were stopped on Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge by state troopers wielding batons and tear gas. Alabama Congresswoman Terri Sewell of Selma says what took place there changed the face of American politics.
NPR News Now
NPR News: 03-07-2025 2PM EST
Sewell has introduced a bill to restore parts of the Voting Rights Act the U.S. Supreme Court struck down in 2013. Debbie Elliott, NPR News, Selma.