article_snippet: (CNN)Crowds massed at a bridge in Selma, Alabama, Sunday to remember and reflect upon the sacrifices of another crowd that gathered at the same bridge half a century ago on a day that came to be known as "Bloody Sunday.
article_snippet: Walkers marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in the afternoon to commemorate those freedom-marchers who were clubbed and tear-gassed by state troopers as they peacefully filed across on March 7, 1965.
article_snippet: It was shoulder to shoulder near the Edmund Pettus Bridge and several blocks away.
article_snippet: On Sunday at Selma's Brown Chapel AME, a historically black church, leaders in the religious and political realm as well as community organizers gathered to hear speeches, sing hymns and remember what happened 50 years ago.
article_snippet: Many of a nation's leaders, activists and celebrities were in Selma on Saturday attending various activities taking place in memory of the historic event.
article_snippet: On Saturday, Rep. John Lewis -- one of the demonstrators bloodied by troopers 50 years ago -- and nearly 100 other members of Congress from both parties joined Obama at the bridge in Selma -- a bridge that still bears the name of Pettus, a Confederate general who was also a Ku Klux Klan leader.
article_snippet: Reflecting a sense of change in the half century since "Bloody Sunday," and with Selma again in a national media spotlight, the mood in the crowd Saturday was of unity, and talks were focused on how to move America forward.
article_snippet: Selma's historic bridge deserves a better name .
highlights_snippet: those who marched 50 years ago are crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge, named for a former KKK leader .
  