Obama on the legacy of Selma
50 years after activists in Alabama marched for the right to vote, the president talks about progress, the Voting Rights Act, and race relations today
50 years after activists in Alabama marched for the right to vote, the president talks about progress, the Voting Rights Act, and race relations today
CBS News senior White House correspondent Bill Plante sat down with President Barack Obama, who said the civil rights marches at Selma was his source of inspiration to get involved in public service in the first place.
On March 7, 1965, hundreds of voting rights activists marched out of Selma, Ala., for the State Capitol in Montgomery. They only made it to the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where authorities set upon them. The violence of that “Bloody Sunday,” broadcast across the nation, was remembered by activists who returned to Selma 50 years later. Charles Osgood reports.
The authorities' attacks on civil rights marchers a half-century ago illustrate how the right to vote was won by bloodshed
CBS News senior White House correspondent Bill Plante looks back on what happened 50 years ago on "Bloody Sunday," and how things have changed.
Fifty years ago, CBS News senior White House correspondent Bill Plante was in Selma when the division between blacks and whites was deeply woven into everyday life. On the 50th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday," he shares some of his thoughts.
Fifty years ago, African-American protesters were beaten as they tried to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge fighting for their civil rights. In his speech at the bridge, President Obama challenged Congress to restore the protections of the Voting Rights Bill, some of which were struck down by the Supreme Court. Bill Plante reports.
Nation's first black president leads remembrance of "Bloody Sunday" on its 50th anniversary
A half a century ago, African Americans demanding the right to vote began a march from Selma, Alabama to the state capitol in Montgomery. But, they didn't get far before being met by violence. Bill Plante reports from Selma to tell us more about the anniversary and his upcoming sit down with the President.
This weekend will mark 50 years since marchers in Selma, Alabama called for African-Americans to have the right to vote. CBS News correspondent Bill Plante -- who was in Selma in 1965 -- looks at how that day changed voting rights in America and what the current landscape looks like today.
Powerful, iconic images chronicling the historic 1965 civil rights marches from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama by Spider Martin, James Baker and Charles Moore on the 50th anniversary
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Stephen Somerstein was positioned right behind Martin Luther King Jr., when he captured one of the most powerful images of the Selma-to-Montgomery civil rights march
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