[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 40 (Friday, March 3, 1995)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E510]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                                 SELMA

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                        HON. CYNTHIA A. McKINNEY

                               of georgia

                    in the house of representatives

                         Friday, March 3, 1995
  Ms. McKINNEY. Mr. Speaker, as bigots and supremacists across the 
Nation bask in their new Republican majorities, this weekend's 
reenactment of the Selma to Montgomery march couldn't have come at a 
better time.
  Thirty years ago, my friend and colleague John Lewis had his head 
bashed in on the Edmund Pettus Bridge because he dared to march for 
voting rights in the South. That historic march to Montgomery gave us 
the Voting Rights Act which is now under attack from every sector: 
Majority and minority districts are being challenged in the courts, 
Governors are trying to kill motor-voter, and now affirmative action 
has become the new Republican wedge issue to divide people.
  Mr. Speaker, while the bigots and supremacists feel emboldened by a 
Republican Congress, I invite them to come to Selma this weekend and 
witness our resolve to fight.


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