Selma 50th anniversary
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Bloody Sunday veterans in Selma, Alabama, 50 years on – video
Civil rights supporters, local Selma residents and President Barack Obama remember pivotal moment in struggle for African American rights
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Eric Holder, Martin Luther King III mark 'Bloody Sunday' in Selma – video
The US attorney general, Eric Holder, and civil rights leaders marked 'Bloody Sunday' in a Selma church before marching across the Edmund Pettus bridge
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Holder and Obama mark Selma events with call for voting rights protectionsAttorney general and president attack 2013 supreme court decision which invalidated part of Voting Rights Act passed after memorialised events of 1965
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Representative John Lewis 'live' tweets Bloody Sunday – as he saw and felt itGeorgia congressman who participated in iconic civil rights protest 50 years ago says in introduction of Obama: ‘We come to Selma to be renewed’
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Selma church choir rallies spirits before 50th anniversary service - video
Worshippers gather at the iconic Brown Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Selma, Alabama, to commemorate the 50th anniversary on the march that sparked the 1965 Voting Rights Act
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Obama in Selma: Ferguson report shows civil rights 'march is not yet finished'President delivers passionate speech on 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday as one group among thousands at Edmund Pettus Bridge protests police shootings
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Obama: Selma helped determine nation's destiny - video
President Barack Obama was in Selma, Alabama on Saturday to commemorate the 50th anniversary of events that sparked the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Obama was introduced by US representative John Lewis, a Democrat from Georgia who marched in Selma 50 years ago. The president spoke at the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where police and state troopers used violence and tear gas against peaceful marchers advocating against racial discrimination at the voting booth. Obama said the bridge joined sites such as Gettysburg that helped determine the nation's future.
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Barack Obama speaks in Selma 50 years after 'Bloody Sunday' – in picturesThe president was one of thousands commemorating the civil rights marchers who in 1965 defied the power of the state to march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge across the Alabama river in pursuit of equal voting rights
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Selma solidarity demonstrators march across Brooklyn BridgeFormer mayor Dinkins: ‘It’s important that people not forget Bloody Sunday’ – 50 years after similar solidarity march occurred in Harlem in 1965
From the archive blog Selma to Montgomery: Martin Luther King and the march for freedom