Civils rights march includes immigration

Mar 7, 2012
by Zoe Ryan

The Associated Press reports on something new this year at the civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery:

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — It won’t just be about history when crowds cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge this weekend and recreate the famous civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery — it will be about targeting Alabama’s toughest-in-the-nation immigration laws and its new voter ID requirements.

Organizers expect thousands to participate in the crossing of the Selma bridge for the 47th anniversary of the 1965 incident when peaceful demonstrators were attacked by police in what became known as “Bloody Sunday.” The violence helped spark passage of the Voting Rights Act.

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