i grew up in selma. i lived my life in selma, alabama. my mom and dad are still in selma, alabama. i cross the edmund pettis bridge every time i go home to visit them. it stands as a symbol for the world of what's possible when brave white men and black men, women and children decide to change the fate of history, and in doing so bring about significant changes for this country. i'm proud to represent selma, alabama, birmingham, alabama, tuscaloosa, alabama, the state of alabama in this congress. i do so humbly because of the courage and bravery of former and current members of congress who did the unthinkable. i can't imagine being congressman john dingell who first took office in 1955 from michigan. he sat in this very chamber and voted for the passage of the civil rights act of 1964 and the voting rights act of 1965. against amazing opposition from his own constituents in michigan. he did the brave thing about voting in favor of this historical -- these historical legislations. he was not the only one sitting in this chamber in 1965. representative john conyers, a black congress

many of us were not in selma. we weren't old enough or born but it is an historic fact what happened in selma got people the right to vote which led to president obama getting enough votes to win for president and others to run for office. why go with this racial authenticity? it's always bringing race in the mix, chris. >> what strikes me is how impotent and feckless the attacks are and how ineffective they've been. it's one thing to say you have a fig whour is relatively new to the national political party in 20 2007, 2008 who would be the first african-american president, who does have a distinct story that is perhaps not relatable to large percentages of the population. and yet he was elected anyway. it's bizarre, downright bizarre to me to choose to attack the president of the united states who has a record, who people know what he's done and hasn't done in the year 2012 for his re-elect based on a hug he gave to a law professor in the 1980s or, you know, or to revisit the controversies -- supposed controvers

-- pettus bridge in selma. they were on their way to montgomery, the state capitol, to protest the murder of a young man, jimmie lee jackson, who had been shot and killed while protecting his mother during a voting rights rally. and they were marching to montgomery to say in a nonviolent way every american deserves the right to be able to register and to vote. every moment has its darkest hours when the exuberens of hopes yields to the reality of difficult and painful struggle. selma brought that reality into the homes across the country. news of that bloody sundae wakened millions of americans to the horrors of jim crow. it opened their eyes to the injustice that had cut off so many of our people from participation in their government. it made it clear that we said in our declaration of independence that we believe in equality, we hope that all men, and i hope to say all women, all people are endowed by god by certain inalienable rights. we were not doing that in this country. that's what this epistle from bir

of lbj talking about selma and showing the images.looking at the front page of the "new york times" today, it is obama backs student in birth control fewer uror that t notion that we are now seeing and what felt like to me, this young woman, a law student from georgetown, it's not even so much her testimony but the attacks on her testimony. it's not even the march but it's the attack on the march ors that pique the consciousness, the sense there's humiliation, literally blood on bloody sunday and this case we have a young woman being attacked and sort of the willingness or the ability of protest for us to see how ugly the repression is. >> well, i think the job of activists is to really bring out into the public eye, as bill has said, exactly what is going on. otherwise, you never are going to deal with a problem unless it's exposed. even in the north, when we marched in howard beach or whatever, people never thought there was racism in the north. i knew if we went and marched in these neighborhoods and they threw bananas and watermel

tyrese is in selma. i talked to you. you ran into martin luther king iii.to come when you heard what we were doing. i remember harry belafonte and others were here 47 years ago when i was 9 and you as an entertainer come why? what compelled you? >> i'm just not really happy with a lot that's been going on. i'm not the most politically well versed person out there, but i do represent the voice, and i know who i am. i'm aware of my light and the gift that god has blessed me with to have a stage of influence. but it has no value if i'm not going to lose my influence to make a difference. and so i think of all of the people looking at this show. how do you feel? you are just at home right now on your couch in your living room relaxing, complaining about everything that has to do with our america. but what are you doing? i don't care what's your worth, what you're driving in, what type of comforts you've been blessed with. there's a lot of people out here right now who have a problem and they can't do anything about it. and so tomorrow's rally and this march rep

it was one with week after the bloody sunday attack on the selma marches.s country. >> there can and should be no argume argument. every american citizen must have an equal right to vote. there is no reason which can excuse the denial of that right. there is no duty which weighs more heavily on us than the duty we have to ensure that right. what happened in selma is part of a far larger movement which reaches into every section and state of america. it is the effort of american negroes to secure for themselves the full blessings of american life. it's not just negroes but really it's all of us who must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice. and we shall overcome. >> the voting rights act of 1965 made voting a constitutional right for the first time. it blocked states from imposing barriers, like the literacy tests or poll taxes. and it barred states from blocking the vote based on race, color, or language. johnson called it his greatest achievement. now that achievement is under attack from so-called voter i.d. bills. and we're going to def

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those were the years they couldn't vote until they marched from selma to montgomery. then my family's record put back up, and it connected back to my great great grandfather. he didn't know what he did for me cause i made a vow that they will never break the voting record of my family again. we gone keep on voting, and you not going to take our right to vote. we are here to tell these legislatures. and we gone leave and go around this country, three areas, we going in the courts and challenge these voter id laws. we're going into these states and with labor, we're going to challenge all of the legislatures that sponsor and support these laws and we're going into churches and prepare our people so they can have the id's as we continue to fight so that our vote will come out. we're not going to allow you to steal this election in advance. now trying to come with another scheme of id. we are smarter than that. we're wiser than that. we're ready for you. we didn't come this far to get tricked now. whatever scheme you play, we'll be ready to meet you and beat you. our fath

selma was closer to the window., the blinds were pulled, and we heard a whining. not like a crying boohoo but like a whining, someone in distress. and then the gunshot. when we looked out the window, we didn't -- we couldn't see anything, it was a little dark. we ran out the sliding glass door and within seconds we were out there. zimmerman -- she was out first. zimmerman was standing over the body with -- basically straddling the body with his hands on trayvon's back. and it didn't seem to me that he was trying to help him in any way. it didn't seem to me -- i didn't hear any struggle prior to the gunshot. and i feel like it was trayvon martin that was crying out because the minute that the gunshot went off, the whining stopped. >> let me ask you, selma, about something that police revealed today. they said george zimmerman said he was walking back to his car when trayvon martin came up behind him, punched him in the face, slammed his head against the sidewalk several times and he was battered and bruised. multiple

bill plante, who covered civil rights in the '60s, takes us back to selma, alabama, 47 years after atesters and police. you're watching "cbs this morning." >>> this portion of "cbs this morning" sponsored by prudential. solving financial challenges for 135 years. prudential, bring your challenges. whatcha lookin' for hon? ah, these new jeans i want. i've been looking everywhere. new blue jeans? oh, don't be crazy, i've got tons of blue jeans. frank! frank! get my jean bin, susie wants my jeans. no she doesn't. here we go. nice and loose. ohhh. those are loose, but i actually just ordered three pairs of this kind. ooooohhhh. oh. when it's on your mind, it's on ebay. ♪ ♪ >>> in march of 1965, cbs news cameras rode along with schoolchildren in alabama during a legendary moment in the civil rights movement. >> on sunday, people gathered on selma's edmund pettus bridge for the anniversary of a brutal showdown there between the protesters and police. senior white house correspondent bill plante who covered the civil rights movement returned to selma yesterday. >> the remembrance of bloody

our david mattingly spoke with naacp president and ceo, ben jealous who was traveling to selma to helps going to be a march that will go across the bridge and then keep on going all the way to montgomery. because this year we don't just go down to remember or to recall, frankly, we go down there to fight and to raise consciousness because right now we are seeing the voting rights act attacked maria consistently across the country than we have seen since it was passed following that great day that really horrible day 47 years ago. >> well, this week the house approved a resolution to obtain oral history, histories about selma from congress members who were there, among them georgia congressman lewis who helped lead the march. how critical are their stories in helping keep the legacy of selma alive. >> they're key for two reasons. one, we need people to know what happened. we need to know, you know, we need the students of this country to know that people risked their lives, but it's also critical because we need people to understand that not only is this history not very distant, but we

almost 47 years ago, congressman lewis helped lead 600 people in a voting rights march in selma, alabamagear launched a vicious attack on the group. that confrontation now known as bloody sunday helped galvanize support for the civil rights movement. today, the house unanimously passed the resolution making the office of the historian compiled testimonies from lewis and others in congress who participated in the civil rights movement in alabama. congressman lewis, thank you for being here tonight. and thank you for joining us and, of course, we'll be with you sunday. and as you know, some of us are marching on following your footsteps all next week to montgomery. >> thank you, reverend al for having me here. today was a wonderful day on the floor of the house of representatives to pass this resolution without a dissenting vote, offered by two young women. two members of the congress. one black, one white, from the state of alabama. it was very moving. and at the end, the two young women came up to me and gave me a hug. it's really almost unbelievable to see the distance we've come and th

senior white house correspondent bill plante who covered the civil rights movement returned to selma bloody sunday is a celebration now. but 47 years ago, the violence of that day shocked the nation. >> you are ordered to disperse. >> the tiny alabama town of selma was the focus of a voting rights campaign and it met with great local hostility. on a sunday in march 1965 it exploded into state sanctioned violence but protesters tried to march from selma to the state capital of montgomery. john lewis was 22. a follower of dr. martin luther king. lewis was one of the two leaders of the martha fateful sunday. he was beaten, trampled and tear gassed when alabama state troopers charged the marchers at the foot of the edmund pettus bridge. >> i thought i was going to die. >> this weekend, john lewis, o now a long serving member of congress, was back on the bridge, older now, but still determined. >> i think it's important for those that was not even born, not even a dream to know what happened. know the price that was paid. the only thing i did, i gave a little blood that day. >> for the pa

marchers are re-creating that walk this week in alabama. >> the 50-mile treck from selma to montgomery is going on now, ends on friday with a rally at the alabama state capital. >>> one in 175 million, those were the odds stacked against a rhode island grandma but the 81-year-old louise white of newport had lady luck on her side. she won the powerball jackpot with the $336 million. she had the option of getting it over 29 years or the lump sum. she did the lump sum so the 81-year-old is now $210 million richer. >>> a rumor that gained steam quickly last week. >> could tim tebow be abc's next bachelor? the denver quarterback, what he has to say about it. he's speaking out on twitter. what he has to say coming up. >> and a new survey, what it says about american tourists. lynette? >> the winds are calm now into baltimore but they will go up as we go throughout the day along with the temperatures. details coming up. >> we're checking all the routes to see how the morning commute is going to be, fortunately no major accidents to report now but we'll let you know about delays, coming up nex

the march from selma to montgomery, the state capital.marked its 47th anniversary yesterday crossing a selma bridge where marchers were beaten by police in 1965. hundreds are expected to march the full 50 miles to montgomery protesting the tough new immigration and voter i.d. laws. >>> on the cbs "moneywatch," bp agreed to a multibillion dollar settlement and bloomberg ranks the world's wealthiest individuals. ashley morrison is here with that. we're not on that last, unfortunately, ashley. >> good morning, betty. i was checking and i could not find our names. >> yeah. >> stocks overseas dropped following low annual growth forecast from china, tokyo's nikkei fell 1%. while hong kong's hang seng erased nearly 1.5%. this week the government releases the february unemployment report. the economy could gain 200,000 jobs for a third consecutive month. stocks were up to close out february. the dow added 33 points last week while the nasdaq gained 11. >>> market analysts expect the price of bp shares to rise after the company announced a settlem

bill plante, who covered civil rights in the '60s, takes us back to selma, alabama, 47 years after as and police. you're watching "cbs this morning." >>> this portion of "cbs this morning" sponsored by prudential. solving financial challenges for 135 years. prudential, bring your challenges. ,,,,,,,,,, ♪ ♪ >>> in march of 1965, cbs news cameras rode along with schoolchildren in alabama during a legendary moment in the civil rights movement. >> on sunday, people gathered on selma's edmund pettus bridge for the anniversary of a brutal showdown there between the protesters and police. senior white house correspondent bill plante who covered the civil rights movement returned to selma yesterday. >> the remembrance of bloody sunday is a celebration now. but 47 years ago, the violence of that day shocked the nation. >> you are ordered to disperse. >> the tiny alabama town of selma was the focus of a voting rights campaign and it met with great local hostility. on a sunday in march 1965 it exploded into state sanctioned violence but protesters tried to march from selma to the state capital

retracing the route of the historic 1965 march from selma to montgomery which ended on the steps of the capitol behind me. a milestone in the fight for civil rights. tonight we'll talk about the scandal engulfing rush limbaugh. it's growing, despite his so-called apology. a major media company pulls out. is this the beginning of the end for rush lame bimbaugh? and some grim news today for mitt romney right before super tuesday primaries. but we start tonight with justice. a symbol of what we are marching against in this country. a shocking racist e-mail from a federal judge who, unless we act, will be back on the bench tomorrow making decisions. montana's top judge, a bush appointee, named richard has apologized for e-mailing a joke suggesting that president obama's late mother had sex with a dog. you heard right. with a dog. at the top of the e-mail, he wrote, quote, i want all of my friends to feel what i felt when i read this. i hope it touches your heart like it did mine. he later admitted he sent it out because he was, quote, anti-obama. after getting caught, cebull asked an appeal

since 1998, lewis has led a congressional delegation back to selma and other landmarks each year and the pilgrimage this year begins on friday. and finally, the chair of the house armed services committee intent on prohibiting private security contractors and afghans from guarding u.s. bases in afghanistan. that is just one bit of news from congressman buck mckeon is, republican of california, in an interview taped for c-span's newsmakers program. the half an hour program airs sundays at 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. eastern time. back in a minute with more "washington today"? >> if you had said in 2006 that the world would be begging for the united states to use force again in the middle east within three and a half years, everybody would have said you were crazy. >> brookings fellow robert kagan is not only an advising to the romney campaign but also serves on secretary of state's clinton's foreign policy board. >> what i've been writing for years is that there's a lot of continuity in american foreign policy, more than we expect, a lot of broad consensus. i think what you're seeing her

is joining me from selma.o see you. >> good to see you, alex. >> let's talk about what 2012 bridge crossing jubilee is all about. >> reporter: so today is -- we are at brown chapel which is in selma, alabama. marches of the 1960s and 1965 started. organizers, including al sharpton and jesse jackson want to start here. the laws that passed over the last year. they are trying to draw in between those laws and laws of the '60s restricted voting rights and want to raise attention to those laws through this protest. >> okay. so about how many folks do you expecting there and what are the big challenges in putting together a big event like this? >> you know, they are talking about several hundred people participating in the overall five days of the event. it is not clear how many people are there today. they are talking about by -- several hundred over the five-day period from starting today and through friday. >> we want to point out to the viewers here between 50-mile journey. what kind of accommodations get made

. >> reporter: march 7 will mark the 47th anniversary of the selma to montgomery march.int it as the turning point in the civil rights movement. >> it will be detrimental to your safety because you are ordered to disperse, go home or go to your church. this march will not continue. >> reporter: some pemembers of congress know about this first hand. john louis, the man who along with martin luther king, jr., led the march on selma is now a member on congress himself. >> i want young people to come along, staffers and others to understand that it was a simple walk, at least an attempt to walk from selma to montgomery to draumatize to the world that people wanted to register to vote. >> reporter: in a rare move house majority canter is working to compile testimonies on video from members who participated in the civil rights movement passes on the house floor. >> it's a part of our history of this country where the country didn't always get it right. and we want to make sure that we are putting into the history of the house the experience of members and john louis is in the

this is why we're marching all week from selma to montgomery.ing rights in 1965. and highlight the fight today against a new wave of laws that suppress the vote. joining me now is alabama state representative kerry rich who sponsored the voter i.d. law that passed last year. thanks for being here. >> good to be here with you. >> can you really say that there's been major voter fraud and it's a major issue here in alabama when there's only been three cases in the last three years? >> that was three cases in the last few years, but over the years, there's been a lot of situations of voter fraud in alabama. in various parts of the state. >> all right. but in 2003, you made a voter i.d. law that would have dealt with all of that. since 2003, you've only had three cases. now the difference, the reason why we're questioning this, in 2003, you passed a voter i.d. law that said you could use your utility bill, bank statement, hunting, fishing license, medicaid/medicare, college i.d., military i.d., social security card, passport or birth certificate. th

. >>> thousands took to the streets of selma, alabama in celebration of the anniversary of bloody sunday. they marched across the infamous bridge. police attacked hundreds of peaceful protesters ondge. same bridge. >> you get a feeling you don't get every day. if you know about the event in the beginning you have a flash back. >> demonstrators will begin a march from selma to montgomery to call for the repeal of alabama's alabama's voter id and immigration laws. they equate the measures to the same voter saw -- suppression that marked the original march. >> at a rally today, putin proclaimed to a sea of supporters that they had triumphed over opponents. however, there are numerous accounts of vote rigging. the demonstration is planned for tomorrow in central moscow. >>> the death toll is climbing in syria. at least 12 people were killed during a protest in a mostly rebel hometown. the assault comes after a victory over president asad. and for the third day the red cross was blocked from getting help to people there. >> -- >>> italy's mount etna is active after 24 days of silence it gave

the female's name is selma. >> what happens now? what do you call for? what is the next stage? >> i don't know what the next stage is. the united nations, the european council. i don't know what could happen in homes. they uare -- homs. they are out of water and food. >> what do you advocate? what are you asking the international community to do? >> we advocate an international intervention. we would like a no fly zone. the syrian people are capable of fighting their own battles if they are equipped with the right military equipment. they have nothing to fight with. >> what would you say to the argument that the opposition are not well-coordinated enough to be given some kind of military support, and that they are not unified? and that there may be pockets of resistance in these combat zones, as opposed to a coordinated response? >> with respect to the rumors you hear, the opposition groups are on target. they may have different political views but they all have one mission, to stop the killing of the innocent people. any kind of support that can be offered with any opposition

from selma to montgomery they have reminded us that the fight for civil and voter rights is not over.e we changing the i.d. laws now if there's been no problem of voter fraud with i.d.s, so then why all of a sudden are we changing the identification needed unless there was a break out or widespread counterfeiting of i.d.s going on. which has not been the indication. >> here is a live look at the alabama state capitol, where the five-day journey marks the original march from selma to montgomery. >>> iran is racheting down the rhetoric over the nuclear program. in the past two takes, iran's leader made a rare statement, and offered praise to president obama of all people, about the comments that there's a window of dip loam assy. and -- we have our guest here, who is an iran expert at the carnegie endowment for international peace and joining me now. we have been watching this and what is your read at the end of the week whether we have dialed it up or down or if we are still in the middle on the possibility of military action from israel to iran? >> i think after prime minister's netan

"nightline" profiled selma hayek in sierra leone, a country where the culture discourages breast-feedingand it leads to malnutrition. this video of when hayek breast fed a little boy went viral. stars don't often breast-feed perfect strangers. perhaps beyonce was trying to make amention. when she gave birth to blue ivy, she and jay-z rented an entire wing of lenox hill hospital. a breast-feeding group threatened to sue. now, beyonce has joined the breast-feeding brigade. asserting her right to breast-feed, even wh with paparazzi in hot pursuit. i'm david wright for "nightline," in los angeles. >> go, beyonce. tonight, a recap of our top story. that line of the deadly storms ac

>> just to pick up on that, though, when we look at the civil rights legislation, i was in selma forhe march. bloody sunday is remembered as a turning point. wasn't johnson also part of that? he also understood the times and how to take advantage of the outside climate and the activism. certainly the civil rights legislation, i don't think we would have got than done had it not just been for him but for the work going on by so many organizations and so many in this country. >> there's a full conversation in the book. it's between lbj and martin luther king. lbj says to king, if you go down to selma and show americans how difficult it is for people of color to register to vote and you get that in the media and the newspapers that there suspect a man who drives a tractor who won't say that isn't right. he understood the importance of working outside of the beltway as well. but looking at that legislation, the civil rights act of 1964, the reason he got it passed was by reaching across the aisle and getting the support of the senate minority leader. that was the key to getting civil rig

to honor the anniversary, thousands of people marched across the bridge through selma, alabama t marked 19th annual re-enactment of protests to open ballot boxes to black americans across the south. this week, demonstrators will also hold a six-day march from selma to montgomery calling for the repeal of bam's voter identification and immigration laws. >>> an avalanche sweeps flu a ski resort and dozens of skiers dangled in lifts overhead. -- an avalanche sweeps through a ski resort and dozens of skiers dangled in lifts overhead. ♪ [ male announcer ] for our families... our neighbors... and our communities... america's beverage companies have created a wide range of new choices. developing smaller portion sizes and more low- & no-calorie beverages... adding clear calorie labels so you know exactly what you're choosing... and in schools, replacing full-calorie soft drinks with lower-calorie options. with more choices and fewer calories, america's beverage companies are delivering. for the spender who needs a little help saving. for adding "& sons." for the dreamer, planning an early esca

. >> rick: selma, alabama, small southern town that played a pivotal role in the civil rights movementthe '60s and half a century later, racial tensions still exist there. one group is trying to change that. >> if you really, like, get in there and like really see beyond the main street or whatever, then you'll see more of, like, segregation and the bad population. >> rick: she and her friends making the 1,000-mile journey from their racially divided hometown to new york city. for many it's their first time out of alabama. >> i've never seen so many big buildings all close together. >> rick: this energetic group is involved in the freedom foundation and it's random act of theater programs. the organization is trying to build a better future for these kids who live challenging lives. >> we're walking down the street in new york is way different than walking down the street in selma. kiki and i were to walk down the street specifically, they'd be like, who are they? you get these looks, you get, like, comments. >> rick: their visit to the big apple, including a workshop where they learne