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Remembering Jack Nelson

Murray Fromson | Posted 10.22.2009 | Media

Read More: Selma, Otis Chandler, Chandler Family, Jack Nelson, Los Angeles, Civil Rights Movement, Watergate, Richard Nixon, John Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, Media News
Murray Fromson

On March 7, 1965, Jack and I met for the first time, on the Edmund Pettus Bridge on the outskirts of Selma, Alabama, he reporting for the Times and I for CBS News.

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Why Obama Will Not Have a 'We Shall Overcome' Moment on Gays

John R. Bohrer | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: James Reeb, Voting Rights Act, Selma, Lyndon Johnson, Bloody Sunday, Jonathan Martin, Dick Goodwin, David Mixner, We Shall Overcome, Politics News
John R. Bohrer

While the Obama administration blames their dallying on the press or the political situation, they should be reminded that that didn't stop Johnson.

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Remembering Martin Luther King

Murray Fromson | Posted 02.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Selma, Martin Luther King, Barack Obama, Mlk, Politics News
Murray Fromson

As a CBS News correspondent, I was walking alongside Dr. King, covering that historic 54-mile march. I am reminded of those steps vividly every year on the occasion of King's birthday.

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Here's To Obama and All of Us: We've Come A Long, Long Way!

Sandy Goodman | Posted 02.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Voting Rights Law, Michael Schwerner, Earl Warren, George W. Bush, Andrew Goodman, Birmingham, March on Washington, Civil Rights Law, Frank Rich, James Chaney, Barack Obama, Impeachment, Kelly Ingram Park, Mississippi Sheriffs, Martin Luther King, Dore Schary, Segregation, Ku Klux Klan, Ralph Abernathy, Selma, United States Supreme Court, Desegregation, Good Friday 1963, ABC News, Bull Connor, Meridian, Inauguration, Politics News
Sandy Goodman

I still remember the clicking of the marchers' heels as they moved into the Birmingham's business district, and, just then, the roar of a police motorcycle as it cut in front of King and Abernathy, halting the protest.

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Why This Is A Night To Remember

Sandy Goodman | Posted 09.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Robert Caro, Voting Rights Act of 1965, Selma, Obama, Lyndon Johnson, Martin Luther King, Politics News
Sandy Goodman

The dramatic drive to move forward as a nation enables a black man to be chosen tonight as one of the two major party candidates for president, something unthinkable less than half a century ago.

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