Alabama will recognize the 60th anniversary of the Selma-to-Montgomery march next March, and the subsequent approval of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Some lawmakers and the Montgomery-based Southern Poverty Law Center are hoping an omnibus legislation, entitled the Alabama Voting Rights Act, will accompany the anniversary.
“The freedom to vote is the most sacred right we have in America – a right that Alabama rallied the nation to expand and protect through the Voting Rights Act nearly 60 years ago,” said Jerome Dees, Alabama Policy Director with the SPLC Action Fund. “Alabama has the opportunity, once again, to safeguard voting rights through legislation that guarantees every voice is heard and every vote is counted.”…