Last Updated: March 11, 2015
President Barack Obama at Selma:
- Watch the speech:
(I) Full Speech
(II) Excerpts:
Also available on: C-Span
. - 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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