US First Family Marks Civil Rights Milestones

U.S. President Barack Obama and his family travel to the southern U.S. town of Selma, Alabama Saturday to mark two milestones of America's civil rights movement: the 50th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery marches and the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Mr. Obama, the country's first African-American president, will speak at the Edmund Pettus Bridge where a large group of civil rights activists were brutally beaten on March 7, 1965 during a...

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