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U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown of Cleveland to attend Selma bridge crossing anniversary events in Selma, Alabama on March 3, 2019, the 54th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday" where peaceful Black Civil Rights protesters, in March 1965, were brutally attacked by angry White cops for a peaceful crossing on the Edmond Pettus Bridge from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, a protest to seek voting and other constitutional rights for Blacks that was led by MLK...The Voting Rights Act of 1965 followed

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U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown, a Cleveland Democrat, will participate in festivities in Selma, Alabama on March 3, 2019, the 54th anniversary of the historical Civil Rights march across the Edmond Pettus Bridge from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama on March 7, 1965 where Civil Rights protesters, led by the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,  were brutally beaten by angry White cops.The Voting Rights Act of 1965, which outlawed racial discrimination in voting, followed and was signed into law by then president Lyndon B. Johnson on Aug. 6, 1965.     Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com , Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog with some 5 million views on Google Plus alone.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, and who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio. We interviewed former president Barack Obama one-on-one when he was campaigning for preside