Barack ObamaHQ announces via blog: Barack Obama is Going to Selma

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http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post_group/ObamaHQ/Cq39

Barack Obama is going to Selma

By Jon Jones - Mar 2nd, 2007 at 2:16 pm EST

Barack has been inspired his entire career, back to his community organizing days, by the civil rights movement, its leaders who have become engrained in our national history, and the everyday, ordinary citizens who stood up against injustice with only the knowledge of right and wrong at their backs.



Image from USDOJ

If you don't know why the Edmund Pettus bridge in Selma, Alabama is important to your heritage, I encourage you to click here and read about it. Click here to read about the Selma to Montgomery Marches.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selma_to_Montgomery_marches

Also, Sandra, just found a great photogallery. Click here to check it out.

http://www.spidermartin.com/

The Selma to Montgomery marches, which included Bloody Sunday, were three marches that marked the political and emotional peak of the American civil rights movement. They were the culmination of the movement in Selma, Alabama for voting rights, launched by Amelia Boynton Robinson and her husband, who brought many prominent leaders of the American Civil Rights Movement to Selma, including Martin Luther King Jr., Jim Bevel, and Hosea Williams. "Bloody Sunday" occurred on March 7, 1965, when 600 civil rights marchers were attacked by state and local police with billy clubs and tear gas. Only the third, and last, march successfully made it into Montgomery. The route is memorialized as the Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail.

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1. Four of Spider Martin's celebrated photos below.

This man made the entire forty mile march


This photo is of John Lewis being beaten by a Highway Patrolman

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2. "Least we never forget"

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3. Only 42 years ago...

And some folks say racism is over in this country...