Remembering Selma: Fifty Years Later (1965-2015)

Last Updated: March 11, 2015

President Barack Obama at Selma:

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• Transcript of President Barack Obama's speech at Selma: Huffington Post | Vox |
• Obama in Selma: Ferguson report shows civil rights 'march is not yet finished'  (The Guardian, 7 March 2015)
• Barack Obama Marks 50th Anniversary Of 'Bloody Sunday' With Powerful Speech In Selma (Huffington Post, 7 March 2015)
• Obama, at Selma Memorial, Says, ‘We Know the March Is Not Yet Over’ (New York Times, 7 March 2015)
• Thousands descend on Selma to hear President Obama mark the 50th anniversary of ‘Bloody Sunday’ (Washington Post, 7 March 2015)

Op-Eds/Analysis

• What Conservatives Willfully Ignore When They Cry 'Tyranny' (Talking Points Memo, 11 March 2015)
• The left’s racial dilemma: President Obama, Michelle Alexander & the nature of change (Salon, 10 March 2015)
• 50 years later, Selma’s struggle is not over (Washington Post, 8 March 2015)
• Race, History, a President, a Bridge Obama and Selma: The Meaning of ‘Bloody Sunday’ (New York Times, 8 March 2015)
• Finally I Hear a Politician Explain My Country Just the Way I Understand It (The Atlantic, 8 March 2015)
• Echoes From Selma... Struggle Is a Never Ending Process (Huffington Post, 7 March 2015)
• 50 years after ‘Bloody Sunday,’ see photos of Selma then and now (PBS Newshour, 7 March 2015)
• Assignment America: Selma (New York Times, 6 March 2015)
• From the Archives: Where’s the Spirit of Selma Now? (New York Times, 6 March 2015)

African American and Asian American:

• The Black And Asian Civil Rights Connection: Past And Present (Liberal America, 9 March 2015)
• Life of Kiyoshi Kuromiya: From Selma Marcher to AIDS Activist (NBC News, 7 March 2015)
• Fifty Years Later, Selma Marcher Still Fights for Civil Rights (NBC News, 7 March 2015)

African American and Catholic:

• The Selma effect: Catholic nuns and social justice 50 years on (Global Sisters Report, 9 March 2015)
• 54 miles to freedom: Catholics were prominent in 1965 Selma march (National Catholic Reporter, 7 March 2015) 
• St. Louis nun who marched in Selma looks back (St Louis Post-Dispatch, 7 March 2015)
• The now shocking words of a Catholic bishop on the Selma marches (Irish Central, 26 January 2015)
• From the Archives of the National Catholic Reporter:
• On the line in Selma with a Sister-demonstrator (24 March 1965)
• Why Sisters? (24 March 1965)
• Sister Alexine's story had to be taped (7 April 1965)
• Religious leaders refute orgy charges (5 May 1965)
• To Critics of Selma Marchers (6 October 1965)

African American and Jewish

• Remembering the African-American/Jewish Coalition of Support for the March From Selma to Montgomery (Huffington Post, 5 March 2015)

News Reports:

• How Selma changed the world: City honors 'LBJ' and voting legislation (The Guardian, 8 March 2015)
• Threats to Voting Rights Remain, Selma Gathering Is Told (New York Times, 8 March 2015)
• In Selma, GOP Lawmakers Explain Why They Don’t Support John Lewis’ Bill To Restore Voting Rights Act (Think Progress, 8 March 2015)
• Bloody Sunday 50th anniversary: Thousands crowd Selma bridge (Washington Post, 8 March 2015)
• From Selma to Ferguson, a lifetime of protests ends at 103 (St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 7 March 2015)
• John Lewis At Selma Anniversary: 'There's Still Work Left To Be Done' (Huffington Post, 7 March 2015)
• Remembering The Four People Of Faith Who Died On The Road From Selma (Huffington Post, 7 March 2015)
• Not one member of House GOP leadership to attend Selma 50th anniversary commemoration (Daily Kos, 6 March 2015)
• Fight over voting rights continues on Selma anniversary (USA Today, 6 March 2015)
• The road from Selma was paved with the blood of four unsung martyrs (Religious News Service, 5 March 2015)

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