PHOTOS: Crowds gather for 'Bloody Sunday' anniversary in Selma

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Singing "We Shall Overcome," President Barack Obama, fourth from left, walks holding hands with Amelia Boynton, who was beaten during "Bloody Sunday."
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SELMA, Ala. -- Crowds gather on March 7, 2015, before a speech by President Obama marking the 50th anniversary "Bloody Sunday," a civil rights march in which protestors were beaten, trampled and tear-gassed by police at the Edmund Pettus Bridge, in Selma, Ala.

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