Word: selma
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...bridge to voting rights was crossed Sunday by the Democrats' top two vote seekers. Senator Hillary Clinton and Senator Barack Obama marched over the infamous Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., site of "Bloody Sunday" in 1965, an historic moment in the civil rights battle...
...other all day, but spoke only briefly. They smiled and sang along with the marchers along the path. While the original march in 1965 was met midway on the bridge by law enforcement, who beat the participants, today, all stopped for prayer at the site before crossing the bridge. Selma police estimated a crowd of 10,000 turned out to view and participate in the march...
...Both Obama and Clinton praised the marchers in Selma for making their runs for president possible...
...Tiny Selma, a sleepy town of less than 20,000, was a hubbub of politicians and media. Alabama Senator Hank Sanders, who invited Obama, contributed the national attention to the importance of Selma in the voting rights movement. "Selma is a symbol for the whole world," Sanders said...
...social movements seem to endure that kind of lurching debate over ideological purity. Selma in 1965 gave way to armed Black Panthers marching on the California capitol two years later. The Stonewall riots of 1969--a reaction against years of police brutality--seem quaintly simple compared with the 1989 storming of St. Patrick's Cathedral by AIDS activists. Gallaudet's current protests, which began months ago and have involved blockades and arrests and charges of violence on both sides, aren't Selma; they're Chicago in 1969, the deaf community's Days of Rage...