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How Selma Made America a 'True Democracy'

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Penn State Special Collections via Flickr
One of the earlier attempts to march from Selma to Montgomery, halted at the Edmund Pettus bridge.

50 years ago this week, Martin Luther King led a march from Selma to Montgomery to advocate for voting rights for disenfranchised African Americans. One Iowan was there.

Reverend Milton Cole-Duvall, then a senior at William and Mary, left school for a week to march in solidarity. On this Talk of Iowa segment, host Charity Nebbe talks with Cole-Duvall about the Selma march. Dr. James Randall, professor emeritus of English and African American Studies at Coe College, also joins the conversation.

Charity Nebbe is the host of IPR's Talk of Iowa