Showdown in Selma Clinton and Obama Will Both Walk in the Historic Voting-Rights MarchMarch 2, 2007 — There's a new sort of showdown in Selma — of the political variety.
Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton are coming to town to commemorate the legendary and bloody demand for voting rights.
Clinton and Obama will participate in a historic reenactment of the Voting Rights March that took place in Selma, Ala., on March 7, 1965, when 600 civil rights workers were violently attacked during a peaceful march for voting rights.
The two political heavyweights, vying for the Democratic nomination for the presidency, will be speaking at historic churches blocks from each other — and at the same time. They will also march in the same parade.
"Well, this wasn't something I anticipated, when we originally accepted the invitation. One thing I don't want to do is diminish the importance of the event, the sanctity of the event with a lot of political posturing and presidential politics," Obama told ABC News' Claire Shipman.
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