Rev. Bernard LaFayette (center, in wheelchair and cloth cap) holds his wife Kate’s hand as they are wheeled over the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on March 9, 2025, as part of 60th anniversary commemorations of Bloody Sunday, the 1965 attack on peaceful civil rights protesters that led to the Selma-to-Montgomery March and the Voting Rights Act. LaFayette ran the Selma voting rights campaign in 1965 and survived an assassination attempt. (Photo by John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout)
SELMA — Sheyann Webb-Christburg was eight years old when Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. attempted to lead hundreds in a march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in March 1965 for voting rights for Black Americans.
Speaking at the 60th anniversary commemoration of Bloody Sunday and the Selma-to-Montgomery March on Sunday, Webb-Christburg said she thinks voting rights are in peril…