article_snippet: I think the Selma movement was about non-violence and peace and democracy.'
article_snippet: History: The events of 'Bloody Sunday' prompted a follow-up march led by civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. that spurred the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
article_snippet: Martin King is seen here at the March 26, 1965 march in Selma .
article_snippet: On Saturday, President Barack Obama declared the work of the Civil Rights Movement advanced but unfinished  during a visit to the Alabama bridge that spawned a landmark voting law.
article_snippet: Fifty years from Bloody Sunday, a follow-up march led by civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. that spurred the 1965 Voting Rights Act is not yet finished, but our're getting closer,' President Barack Obama said, standing near the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where police and state troopers beat and fired tear gas at peaceful marchers who were advocating against racial discrimination at the voting booth.
article_snippet: The event became known as 'Bloody Sunday' and prompted a follow-up march led by civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. that spurred the 1965 Voting Rights Act. '
article_snippet: President Barack Obama is seen hugging Rep. John Lewis (D-GA), who was at the 'Bloody Sunday' march 50 years ago .