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March 9th, 2015 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda 
An estimated 70,000 people have taken part in the 50th anniversary commemorations of the 1965 Bloody Sunday march across a bridge in Selma, Alabama – an event which marked a turning point in the US civil rights movement against racial discrimination.
Singing hymns and
holding signs bearing slogans such as “black lives matter,
all lives matter,” the crowd slowly made their way across
the symbolic Rubicon on Sunday. The rally was so large that many
appeared barely able to move as the stream carried them across
the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
Half a century ago, on March 7, 1965, some 600 civil rights
activists marched east out of Selma on US Route 80. They had only
got only as far as the Edmund Pettus Bridge, six blocks away,
when state and local policemen attacked them with billy clubs and
tear gas, driving the crowd back into Selma.
Two days later, Martin Luther King, Jr., despite a restraining
order, led a symbolic march to the bridge. In the same month,
about 25,000 civil rights activists sought court protection for a
third, full-scale march from Selma to the State Capitol in
Montgomery.
Activists’ endeavors and perseverance forced the then-president
Lyndon Johnson to sign the Voting Rights Act of 1965 which put an
end to racial discrimination in voting.
Meet the Selma foot soldiers who are still marching today
http://t.co/g5lcYNH0m4pic.twitter.com/Kq8BJkYqC9
— ThinkProgress (@thinkprogress) March
9, 2015
US Attorney Eric Holder participated in the traditional service
Sunday morning service in Selma before addressing the crowd as he
spoke of the past and the motivations of those who marched 50
years ago.
Holder noted that the Civil Rights Act gave African-Americans
historic protections, but without “real political power,
people of color continued to be marginalized, stigmatized,
brutalized, and denied their very humanity.”
Fifty years ago he said, civil rights movement was “spurred
by the murder of Jimmie Lee Jackson – an unarmed young black
man.”
He repeated those words “unarmed black man,” referring
to 18-year-old Michael Brown, who was gunned down by a white
police officer in Ferguson, Mo. last year, and Eric Garner who
was choked to death by the cops in New York – incidents which
sparked protests and calls for change in modern-day US.
Ferguson protesters in Selma: The Civil Rights Movement isn’t
just for history books. http://t.co/ixgu7GHu9F pic.twitter.com/uuZKDoKC9w
— Mashable (@mashable) March
8, 2015
Civil Rights activist, Martin Luther King III, the son of the
prominent Martin Luther King, Jr., said just as much work needs
to be done today as it did 50 years ago.
“This means standing up, and speaking out, for the civil
rights to which everyone in this country is entitled,” he said.
“It means calling attention to persistent disparities and
inequities. And it means working tirelessly to safeguard and to
exercise the right to vote.”
President Barack Obama visited Selma on Saturday to tell the
nation that the civil rights movement needs to continue in the
face of ongoing racial tensions across the nation.
“Fifty years from Bloody Sunday, our march is not yet
finished, but we’re getting closer,” said Obama.
An anniversary march from Selma to Montgomery is set to begin
Monday morning and culminate in a rally at the Alabama Capitol
Friday afternoon.
Source Article from http://rt.com/usa/238861-selma-bloody-march-anniversary/
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