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       An old voting machine is seen inside the National Voting Rights Museum & Institute, Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024, in Selma, Ala. Events commemorating the 59th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday voting rights march in 1965 will culminate with a bridge crossing in Selma, Ala, on Sunday, March 3. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

       A vehicle passes by the town welcome sign, Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024, in Selma, Ala. Events commemorating the 59th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday voting rights march in 1965 will culminate with a bridge crossing in Selma, Ala, on Sunday, March 3. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

       Ben Jones walks through the National Voting Rights Museum & Institute, Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024, in Selma, Ala. Events commemorating the 59th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday voting rights march in 1965 will culminate with a bridge crossing in Selma, Ala, on Sunday, March 3.( AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

       An old voting machine is seen inside the National Voting Rights Museum & Institute, Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024, in Selma, Ala. Events commemorating the 59th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday voting rights march in 1965 will culminate with a bridge crossing in Selma, Ala, on Sunday, March 3. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

       A vehicle passes by the town welcome sign, Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024, in Selma, Ala. Events commemorating the 59th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday voting rights march in 1965 will culminate with a bridge crossing in Selma, Ala, on Sunday, March 3. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

       Ben Jones walks through the National Voting Rights Museum & Institute, Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024, in Selma, Ala. Events commemorating the 59th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday voting rights march in 1965 will culminate with a bridge crossing in Selma, Ala, on Sunday, March 3.( AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

       An old voting machine is seen inside the National Voting Rights Museum & Institute, Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024, in Selma, Ala. Events commemorating the 59th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday voting rights march in 1965 will culminate with a bridge crossing in Selma, Ala, on Sunday, March 3. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

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       A vehicle passes by the town welcome sign, Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024, in Selma, Ala. Events commemorating the 59th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday voting rights march in 1965 will culminate with a bridge crossing in Selma, Ala, on Sunday, March 3. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

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       By Associated Press

       PUBLISHED: March 2, 2024 at 11:01 p.m. | UPDATED: March 3, 2024 at 5:44 p.m.

       By KIM CHANDLER (Associated Press)

       SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris told thousands gathered for the 59th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday attacks on civil rights marchers in Selma, Alabama, that fundamental freedoms, including the right to vote, are under attack in America even today.

       Harris joined those gathered at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where voting rights activists w ...

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