History making Selma marchers for civil rights secured Voting Rights Act of the Civil Rights Era

WASHINGTON — The civil rights protestors whose 1965 “Bloody Sunday” march led to the Voting Rights Act received the Congressional Gold Medal on Wednesday, thanks in part to U.S. Sen. Cory Booker, who said he owes his post to them. “I stand here today because you stood there then, because you marched, because you didn’t let…