A Look at the Heart-Wrenching Moments From Equal Rights Battles – The New York Times

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A Look at the Heart-Wrenching Moments From Equal Rights Battles

All the major battles for equal rights — racial, ethnic, gender, sexual orientation, disability — are explored in “The Good Fight.”

via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/12/14/a-look-at-the-heart-wrenching-moments-from-equal-rights-battles/

The 54-mile march for voting rights from Selma to Alabama’s state capital, Montgomery, took more than good legs and sturdy shoes. It took defying the police, who ambushed hundreds of men, women and children — on a bridge named for a Klu Klux Klan leader — and beat them bloody. It took a court order and it took journalists covering the struggles to tell and shock the world.