US Civil Right Activists to March on Washington

To highlight what they say is a fresh attack on equal rights, U.S. civil rights campaigners are marching 1,385 kilometers from Selma, Alabama, to Washington, D.C. After starting at the historic Edmund Pettus Bridge, the "40-day-and-40-night'' march is to end September 15. To mark the start of the so-called "America's Journey for Justice'' Reverend Theresa Dear told the Montgomery Advertiser newspaper, "We are doing something of biblical...

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