WASHINGTON: Activists from the NAACP, America's oldest and largest civil rights group, embarked this weekend on a month-and-a-half long march from Selma, Alabama to Washington, DC, to focus national attention on issues of racial injustice.

The 860-mile (1,384-kilometer) journey, "America's Journey for Justice," got under way Saturday in Selma, seen by many as the birthplace of the US civil rights movement more a half-century ago.

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