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Civil rights veterans see history repeating after high court guts Voting Rights Act

· Straits Times

SELMA, Alabama, May 18 - Betty Strong Boynton marched into history as a teenager in the 1960s, when she was among the hundreds of peaceful protesters attacked by club-wielding Alabama state troopers on Bloody Sunday - a day that marked a turning point in the struggle for civil rights.