Jo Ann Bland, Child Activist in Civil Rights Struggle, Dies at 72



At 11, she was one of the youngest at the 1965 “Bloody Sunday” voting rights march in Selma, Ala., and was injured while crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge.



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