Obama: US Racial History 'Casts Long Shadow'

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Obama: US Racial History 'Casts Long Shadow'

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Barack Obama has said that America's racial history "still casts its long shadow" upon the nation despite 50 years of progress.

Speaking on the anniversary of the "Bloody Sunday" march in Selma, Alabama, the President praised civil rights activists who struggled for equal voting rights.

"We just need to open our eyes, and ears, and hearts, to know that this nation's racial history still casts its long shadow upon us," Mr Obama said.

"We know the march is not yet over, the race is not yet won, and that reaching that blessed destination where we are judged by the content of our character requires admitting as much."

Thousands gathered in the riverside town of Selma for commemorations to mark the civil rights protests of 7 March, 1965.

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  1. Gallery: Selma: Thousands Remember Civil Rights Landmark

    Thousands have been gathering in Selma, Alabama, to mark the 50th anniversary of a landmark event in the civil rights movement

President Barack Obama will make a speech in the town of roughly 20,000, where in 1965 police attacked marchers demonstrating for voting rights

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'Bloody Sunday' is seen as building momentum for congressional approval of the Voting Rights Act later that year

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On that day 50 years ago the marchers tried to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge on the way to Montgomery, and the Obama family will take part in a ceremonial walk across it

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On the way to Selma, President Obama signed a resolution to grant the Congressional Gold Medal to the 'foot soldiers' who participated in the 1965 march

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Obama: US Racial History 'Casts Long Shadow'

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Barack Obama has said that America's racial history "still casts its long shadow" upon the nation despite 50 years of progress.

Speaking on the anniversary of the "Bloody Sunday" march in Selma, Alabama, the President praised civil rights activists who struggled for equal voting rights.

"We just need to open our eyes, and ears, and hearts, to know that this nation's racial history still casts its long shadow upon us," Mr Obama said.

"We know the march is not yet over, the race is not yet won, and that reaching that blessed destination where we are judged by the content of our character requires admitting as much."

Thousands gathered in the riverside town of Selma for commemorations to mark the civil rights protests of 7 March, 1965.

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  1. Gallery: Selma: Thousands Remember Civil Rights Landmark

    Thousands have been gathering in Selma, Alabama, to mark the 50th anniversary of a landmark event in the civil rights movement

President Barack Obama will make a speech in the town of roughly 20,000, where in 1965 police attacked marchers demonstrating for voting rights

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'Bloody Sunday' is seen as building momentum for congressional approval of the Voting Rights Act later that year

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On that day 50 years ago the marchers tried to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge on the way to Montgomery, and the Obama family will take part in a ceremonial walk across it

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On the way to Selma, President Obama signed a resolution to grant the Congressional Gold Medal to the 'foot soldiers' who participated in the 1965 march

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