Over the weekend, President Obama was among the thousands of Americans commemorating the 50th anniversary of the civil rights march on Selma, Alabama. The event became the scene for America's Bloody Sunday after freedom-marchers were clubbed and tear-gassed by state troopers as they peacefully made their way across Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on March 7, 1965.
"It was not a clash of armies but a clash of wills. A contest to determine the true meaning of America," President Obama said in a speech yesterday.
BBC North America Correspondent Aleem Maqbool retraced the the steps of those activists 50 years ago by walking from from Selma to Montgomery alongside some of the original marchers.
Maqbool reflects on the 50th anniversary of the march and how the original activists are remembering the events of Bloody Sunday.