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Ahead of Selma anniversary, how have voting rights changed?

Name: Ahead of Selma anniversary, how have voting rights changed?
Uploaded: 2015-03-06T18:57:42-0500
Duration: 2 min 24 s
Description: 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.

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.