The Obama girls Sasha and Malia joined their parents, president Obama
and First Lady Michelle in Selma, Alabama on Saturday March 7th to
commemorate the 50th anniversary of Bloody
Sunday, the day where civil rights activists braved the KKK and police
forces in one of their first civil
rights marches. The march took place in March 1965.
President Obama led the 50th anniversary march across the Edmund Pettus
Bridge. The group also included former President George Bush and his
wife former
Laura Bush, some of the original foot soldiers from 1965, faith leaders, and elected officials in Alabama
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