BLOODY SUNDAY' ANNIVERSARY COMMEMORATED WITH MARCH ACROSS SELMA BRIDGE
On Sunday there was a reenactment of the 1965 "Bloody Sunday" march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, as part of a weekend of events to celebrate the 50th anniversary of a turning point in the civil rights movement. There is also a march scheduled for Monday to Montgomery on the route MLK and his followers walked in in the wake of Bloody Sunday. President Obama visited Selma on Saturday and declared the work of the U.S. civil rights movement not finished. The anniversary comes at a time when the focus on racial disparities in the U.S. is very prominent.
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