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Selma: Honoring the courage of democracy heroes
Every March, we commemorate the heroism of the people of a small town in Alabama who decided to put their bodies on the line to hold America accountable to the promise of its democracy. For the Lawyers’ Committee, the convener of Election Protection Coalition, the nation’s largest non-partisan voter support coalition that administers the 866-OUR-VOTE voter assistance hotline, this remembrance holds a special place within our collective hearts. In 1965, ninety-five years after the passage of the 15th Amendment, which prohibited voting discrimination on the basis of race, many states in the former confederacy responded to the opening of our democracy by defiantly refusing to allow African A

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