… linked the name of Selma with the struggle for civil rights and racial and economic justice in America. And we know that maintaining that memory is important today partly because We are beginning to see how much effort has gone into suppressing the memory and the history of what has happened in this country. From university courses about black history to museums and National Park Service sites like the home of Medgar and Murlie Evers and the Emmett Till National Monument, we are seeing … (00:53–01:03)
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Asserts that there are efforts to suppress historical memory and history in the U.S.
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