The Hypocrisy Of Celebrating Selma

Vice President Biden joined John Lewis and others at the annual pilgrimage to Selma in 2013. (Dave Martin/AP) When civil-rights activists converge on Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge next Saturday, they'll have a bigger goal than simply commemorating the 50th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday." The 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, helped secure the passage of the Voting Rights Act.

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