PEACE DAY ACTIVITIES 50 YERS AFTER

Obama was present in Selma with his family to remember that half a century before MLK for the right to vote.

On Sunday March 7th , 1965 about 600 people particpated in a March to Montgomery to demand ther electoral rights , but they were violenty attacked in a police assault . The bloody repression of the March , broad cast live on television ,shocked America .

Two weeks later , thousands of people led by Martin Luther King come back fro Selma to go to Montgomery.