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Jeff Sessions: “On the 50th anniversary of the Selma march that is approaching--people were denied systematically fundamental rights as…”

On the recordJanuary 27, 2015
On the 50th anniversary of the Selma march that is approaching--people were denied systematically fundamental rights as citizens of the United States of America.
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Jeff Sessions
Republican · Alabama

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Sessions highlights the importance of remembering civil rights struggles on the anniversary of the Selma march.

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