Selma March (Photo : Reuters)
United States President Barack Obama attended the 50th anniversary of the "Bloody Sunday" at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama and he noted that "Selma" is a living history lesson for his daughters as he talked in the event.
Obama was with his daughters Sasha and Malia Obama during the speech as the family paid tribute to the civil rights legends who lead a symbolic march across the bridge in Alabama as they protested about their voting rights. It was known as "Bloody Selma" because police officials tried to stop the black people and most of them were beaten.
According to UT San Diego, Obama marched with first lady Michelle Obama, their daughters, Michelle's mother Marian Robinson, the former president George W. Bush and former first Lady Laura Bush. Also in the march were Democrat Representative John Lewis and Amelia Boynton who were both at the original march and were beaten.
In a photo posted by Vox, Obama lead the march where thousands of people attended and it will reportedly be one for the books regarding civil rights history.
Obama noted during his speech that the event is an extraordinary honor especially to his 16-year-old and 13-year-old daughters. He noted that he took them to the march because he wanted to remind his daughters of their "own obligations".
This is not the first time that Obama talked about his daughters and linking them to history as in an interview last week, the president shared that he thinks his children appreciate the sacrifices made by other people in the past so the lives of the generation today would be easier.
However, he noted that his daughters need to understand that the struggle is still an "unfinished project" referencing to the racial-fueled attacks last year when a teenager named Michael Brown in Ferguson Missouri was shot to death even if he was unarmed and the chokehold case of a black man from Staten Island, New York leading to his death.
