Obama's Selma Address Lauded as One of His Best
US President Barack Obama walks alongside Amelia Boynton Robinson (2nd-R), one of the original marchers, First Lady Michelle Obama (L), and US Representative John Lewis (2nd-L), Democrat of Georgia, and also one of the original marchers, across the Edmund Pettus Bridge to mark the 50th Anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery civil rights marches in Selma, Alabama, March 7, 2015. The event commemorates Bloody Sunday, when civil rights marchers attempting to walk to the Alabama capital of Montgomery to end voting discrimination against African Americans, clashed with police on the bridge. AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEB
Photographer: Saul Loeb/AFP PhotoPresident Barack Obama's speech in Selma, Ala., Saturday has been widely heralded as one of his best.
Commemorating the 50th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday," when civil rights protesters were beaten by Alabama State Troopers, the president spoke at the spot where the violence broke out, the Edmund Pettus Bridge.