Voting Rights March: Now and Then

Thousands gathered March 3, 2013 to march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala. — the same path civil rights demonstrators marched on "Bloody Sunday" in 1965.

This March 21, 1965 file photo shows civil rights marchers crossing the Alabama river on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala. to the State Capitol of Montgomery.

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This March 21, 1965 file photo shows civil rights marchers crossing the Alabama river on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala. to the State Capitol of Montgomery.

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Voting Rights March: Now and Then

Thousands gathered March 3, 2013 to march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala. — the same path civil rights demonstrators marched on "Bloody Sunday" in 1965.

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