article_snippet: U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder was in the audience.
article_snippet: Rev. Jesse Jackson spoke, as did Rev. Al Sharpton.
article_snippet: Several people remarked at how much it meant that the day before, on Saturday, America's first African-American President, Barack Obama, made a rousing speech on racial progress in a diverse country.
article_snippet: Read Obama's prepared remarks .
article_snippet: Obama said that what civil rights marchers did years ago "will reverberate through the ages.
article_snippet: Obama hailed what civil rights marchers as heroes.
article_snippet: Obama said that "the Americans who crossed this bridge, they were not physically imposing, but they gave courage to millions.