'Freedom Journey' Photo Exhibit Recalls '65 Civil Rights March

Stephen Somerstein was a 24-year-old college student when he photographed the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery march in Alabama that changed the course of civil rights in the United States. Fifty years later as the deaths of unarmed black men at the hands of white police officers spark protests, and as the film "Selma," about King's role leading the march, wins acclaim, Somerstein's photographs are the focus of an exhibition marking the...

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