LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – The Little Rock NAACP branch will commemorate the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday with a march this weekend.
The march will be held Sunday, March 9 from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. It will begin in the parking lot of Dickey Stephens Stadium at 400 Broadway Street in North Little Rock. The march will go across the Broadway bridge to Little Rock City Hall at 300 Main Street.
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The Little Rock NAACP branch is holding the march to celebrate the March 7, 1965, march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. The march, which was led by activist John Lewis, was a statement to demand African Americans the right to vote.
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Months later, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was passed…