SELMA: Tracing the footsteps of civil rights leaders who made his journey to the White House possible, President Barack Obama will on Saturday visit Selma, Alabama to enlist a new generation in their fight.
America's first black president will mark the 50th anniversary of the fateful march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where brutal state suppression only catalyzed support for black voting rights.
Accompanied by wife Michelle and daughters Sasha and MaliaObama will argue that events in the city half a century ago are not confined to place or time.
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