Marty Roney

Marty Roney is an author at Religion News Service.

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‘Bloody Sunday’ altered history of a horrified nation

By Marty Roney — March 4, 2015
(RNS) Images of that day 50 years ago, when law enforcement officers beat back peaceful civil rights marchers trying to cross Alabama's Edmund Pettus Bridge, provided the catalyst for passage of the Voting Rights Act.
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