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Bringing The Spirit Of Selma Home To Seattle

caption: Sunset over the Alabama River and the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma.
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Sunset over the Alabama River and the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma.
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Marcie Sillman talks to University of Washington communication professor David Domke about the pilgrimage he and 52 fellow travelers took to the deep south. They met with civil rights leaders and visited key monuments in the civil rights movement. The trip culminated in Selma, Alabama on the Edmund Pettus Bridge where President Obama spoke in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday."

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