GOP leader headed to Selma after all  —  1965's ‘Bloody Sunday’ in Selma, Alabama 6 photos  —  About 600 people began a 50-mile march from Selma to the Alabama state capitol in Montgomery on March 7, 1965.  They intended to protest discriminatory practices that prevented black people from voting.

What I saw at Selma  —  King's genius was that he knew when to thwart the law—and when to obey it.  —  Martin Luther King Jr. liked to joke that I was the one member of his legal team who would help him go to jail rather than using all the tricks of the trade to keep him out.

The GOP's Conspicuous Absence from Selma  —  On the 50th anniversary of the historic march for civil rights, Republicans are largely no-shows.  —  This afternoon, in the hot center of the state of Alabama, a parade of Americans will pay homage to a historic march.

Obama: 50 Years After Bloody Sunday ‘Our March Not Yet Over’ … Fifty years after civil-rights demonstrators were beaten and tear-gassed by police at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., the first African-American president took the stage at the bridge today to commemorate that major moment in American civil-rights history.