U.S. Presidential Hopefuls March Together
Two U.S. presidential hopefuls from the Democratic Party, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama appeared side by side in a march commemorating a landmark civil rights demonstration in Alabama on Sunday. Both Clinton and Obama visited the city of Selma to pay homage to civil rights leaders and try to secure the black vote.
In a 35-minute address at the Brown Chapel Church, Senator Barack Obama said it was time for his generation to pick up the work of those who had toiled before. Acknowledging a recent revelation that his mother’s ancestors owned slaves, Mr. Obama said it was the civil rights movement that made the love of his Kansan mother and Kenyan father possible.
Speaking to the audience three blocks away from the Brown Chapel, Hillary Rodham Clinton noted that the civil rights movement gave the chance to run for president for Barack Obama and Governor Bill Richardson, a Hispanic. “And, yes, it is giving me that chance,” Mr. Clinton told worshippers at the First Baptist Church.
Meanwhile, competitive dynamic of the Democratic presidential nomination intensified on Sunday with the debut of former President Bill Clinton on the campaign trail.
Senator Barack Obama joined the Clintons for a march across a bridge where white police officers beat protesters, most of them black, nearly 42 years.
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