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Eyewitness: What ‘Selma’ Got Right

Bearing Witness

The new movie, Selma shows that the past is still relevant to the present, and that progress is never guaranteed.

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On the night of Feb. 18, 1965, I was a TV journalist covering a peaceful night-time march from a local church to a prison in Marion, Ala.,

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