Thousands Flood The Streets Of Selma To Honor Landmark Anniversary Of March

March 07, 2015
Chicago

The streets of Selma, Alabama, were packaged on Saturday with thousands of people who trafficked to a tiny city to commemorate a 50th anniversary of a ancestral impetus for voting rights.

Large crowds collected around a Edmund Pettus Bridge, that outlines a plcae where internal activists, led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., were pounded by military on Mar 7, 1965. Officers used rip gas and billy cubs to overpower a marchers, and a day after came to be famous as “Bloody Sunday.”

President Barack Obama is approaching to broach remarks on Saturday

The city will also horde a array of events honoring a anniversary. Meanwhile, thousands of citizens, polite rights activists and politicians — from as distant as California

Check out a large crowds collected in Selma this weekend in a photos below:

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