Beshear wrote on social media that on this day 60 years ago, those that marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, delivered monumental change.
“In their honor, we must keep marching forward. We can, and we will, for all our children,” Gov. Beshear wrote.
The Kentucky governor reportedly spoke at the 60th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday march.
According to the Associated Press, on March 7, 1965, marchers crossed the same bridge protesting white officials’ refusal to allow Black Alabamians to register to vote, as well as the killing days earlier of Jimmie Lee Jackson, a minister and voting rights organizer who was shot by a state trooper in nearby Marion.
60 years later, Gov. Beshear and First Lady Britainy Beshear marched with those who were there on that historic day, as well as marchers from the generations who came after.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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