Register for From Bloody Sunday to Today

On March 7, 1965, John Lewis, Hosea Williams, and 600 civil rights marchers were viciously beaten and tear gassed by Alabama state and local police at the Edmund Pettus Bridge as they embarked on a march from Selma to Montgomery to demand voting rights. “Bloody Sunday” ignited the conscience of the nation and led to the Voting Rights Act, passed five months later.

Today the fight to ensure every eligible American has the right to vote has taken on new urgency. Since the 2013 Supreme Court Decision, Shelby v. Holder, that removed federal oversight of states with long histories of voter suppression, there has been a dramatic rise in state laws that restrict people's right to vote. In fact, since the 2020 election, state legislators have introduced four times as many bills that surpess people’s basic right to vote as last year.

The League is pleased to co-sponsor “From Bloody Sunday to Today: The Fight for the Right to Vote,” an in-depth conversation among nationally recognized experts, presented by the Workers Circle and the Center for Common Ground. There will be ASL and live captioning provided.

Guests:  Leigh Chapman, Andrea Miller, and Ari Berman

Co-sponsored by:

Avodah
Bend The Arc
Carolina Jews for Justice
Center for Common Ground
Center for Disability Rights
Center for Popular Democracy
Declaration for American Democracy
DemCast USA
Franciscan Action Network
Jewish Community Action
League of Women Voters
Missouri Voter Protection Coalition
National Association of Councils on Developmental Disabilities
National Association of Social Workers
National Council of Jewish Women
National Disability Rights Network (NDRN)
NETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social Justice
Public Citizen
Sierra Club
Spitfire
T'ruah
The Workers Circle
Transformative Justice Coalition
Voto Latino