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60th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday: Selma's Youngest Marcher Speaks - Greg Palast
This year marks the 60th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the march over the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, where John Lewis was beaten close to death marching for the right for Black people to vote in America.
In this excerpt from our film THE BEST DEMOCRACY MONEY CAN BUY, Lynda Blackmon Lowery, the youngest marcher — beaten so badly by cops on the Edmund Pettus Bridge that she was put in a hearse, presumed dead — tells her story. - 05/08/2025.
Watch the FULL MOVIE here: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy (2018) — FULL MOVIE: