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    Bloody Sunday and "The Bridge Crossing Jubilee"

    On "Bloody Sunday," John Lewis and other civil rights marchers were brutally attacked by police and soldiers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.

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    By Warren Olney • Mar 6, 2015 • 1 min read

    On "Bloody Sunday," John Lewis and other civil rights marchers were brutally attacked by police and soldiers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.

    Tomorrow — just 50 years later -- President Obama and former President George W. Bush will be among the huge crowd that's expected to attend the "Bridge Crossing Jubilee" in Selma. It's a reminder of progress toward civil rights in America — and a reminder of failure. Peniel Joseph is a history professor at Tufts University, where he directs the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy. He's author of, Stokely: A Life, about the disillusioned civil rights leader, Stokely Carmichael.

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      Warren Olney

      former KCRW broadcaster

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      Reporter, Fill-in Host

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      Evan George

      Director of Content, News

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      Peniel Joseph

      historian and professor at the University of Texas at Austin, and founding director of the school’s Center for the Study of Race and Democracy

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