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SELMA, Alabama — More than 1,000 people outside the Brown Chapel in Selma, Alabama, were waiting for morning mass or trying to snap a photo of Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson on Sunday, as the two reverends climbed out of their cars and slipped inside. But the crowd also glimpsed a small group of mostly young men and women chanting and marching in the street with their hands in the air.
The group was from Ferguson, Missouri, the site of widespread protests against police treatment of minorities, which began in August after a white police officer there shot and killed an unarmed black teenager named Michael Brown. Demonstrators from Ferguson were in town over the weekend to commemorate the 50th anniversary of a 1965 voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, known as "Bloody Sunday." Their goal: to remind the country that the Civil Rights Movement isn't only something you learn about in school. Read more...
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