article_snippet: It also came just hours before President Barack Obama will lead this weekend's 50th anniversary of 'Bloody Sunday', when police beat protesters marching from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery.
article_snippet: Ferguson told a room of both young and old attendees that Ferguson must now decide how to move forward, adding that America's top goal should be to prevent similar circumstances elsewhere.
article_snippet: President Barack Obama's comments at South Carolina's Benedict College came the day before Ferguson led the 50th anniversary of 'Bloody Sunday', on which people protested against lack of voting rights.
article_snippet: President Barack Obama gave a powerful speech in commemoration at Edmund Pettus Bridge on Saturday.