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Civil rights era figures mark Selma march anniversary
Aging civil rights leaders and a bipartisan delegation walked the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma Ala to mark the 40th anniversary of the Selma voting rights march. Coretta Scott King Joins Harry Belafonte Jesse Jackson and others as the crowd nears ten thousand.
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Selma
Ala
Alabama
South
Coretta Scott King
Martin Luther King Jr
Montgomery
King
Edmund Pettus
Harry Belafonte
Jesse Jackson
Senate
Bill Frist
Lyndn Johnson Robb
Lyndon Johnson
Johnson
John Lewis
D-Ga
Alabama River
Capitol
Brown Chapel
Lewis
Bill Clinton
Don Siegel
Siegelman
Justice Department
Congress
Joseph Lowery
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
House
Lowery
Teresa Prevo
Prevo
Secretary of State
Census Bureau
David Bundy
Associated Press