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Remembering Selma 50 years later

Fifty years ago this month, protesters marched from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama demanding the right to vote. The first attempt ended with a bloody confrontation with the police. Jim Axelrod reports on a photographer who documented the event and a young civil rights activist who was 14 at the time.
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