Selma civil rights milestone marked by first black president

SELMA, (Alabama): Americas racial history œstill casts its long shadow upon us, the nations first black president said Saturday as he stood in solidarity and remembrance with civil rights activists whose beatings by police a half-century ago galvanized people against racial oppression and hastened passage of historic legislation guaranteeing voting rights for minorities.

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