Selma, AL - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Selma, AL Index / Locations Transcripts David Axelrod ...know, it looked like a scene from Selma in the 1960s. It was national news. An... Gregory Craig ...the march over the bridge in Selma could make a difference. Those tw... Antony Blinken ...a holiday weekend, and maybe it was Selma , or maybe it was one of the othe... Jon Favreau ...our forbearers through Seneca Falls and Selma [march] and Stonewall [riots].... ...rights movement? He does this in Selma best I think, which we can talk about... ...be able to do that. You mentioned the Selma speech before, which I did want to as... ...that. I did want to ask you about the Selma speech. In March of 2015, Presiden... ...a speech at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma to mark the fiftieth anniversary o... Cody Keenan ...he was proud of you was? It was the Selma speech. Again, that was probably ou... ...I do want to ask you more about the Selma speech in our third session, but thank... ...a speech at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma to mark the fiftieth anniversary o... ...idea come from to deliver a speech in Selma ? I think it was preordained... ...preordained, basically. He'd been to Selma before on a different anniversary whe... ...seventh is the fiftieth anniversary of Selma . The president is going to go. It'... ...we going to talk about? Everybody knows Selma , the story of Selma. It's 1965. Joh... ...Everybody knows Selma, the story of Selma . It's 1965. John Lewis leads a crow... ...just make the speech about that and use Selma as that. First of all, he said, mak... ...as that. First of all, he said, make Selma as important a place in this country a... ...canon. It is as—what happened in Selma is as important to the future of thi... ...one line, one thesis. What happened in Selma , it was not a clash of armies but ... ...for grown-ups, is how you can describe Selma , I do think that speech will endure a... ...kinds of Americans an audience for the Selma speech as well? And what did you wan... ...this a true democracy. So I think for Selma , that's something that really neede... ...too. Michael Gerson said that the Selma speech “falls into the category o... ...and always has been. I mean, for Selma , he and I went through, I think, fiv... ...in my head for several months before Selma . I just didn't know where it would go... ...find a place to put it until the Selma speech came along, and I was like... ...March on Washington, and the march from Selma to Montgomery, and how could you no... ...women marched for the right to vote; to Selma , where Black Americans marched for th... ...alliteration was great. Seneca Falls, Selma , Stonewall. But these are fundamenta... ...those moments where it was not like the Selma speech, where we felt good about it. ... ...want to tie it directly back to Selma ; because it was that thesis of his... ...America that he had at the end of the Selma speech? Is that who we are? At the en... ...to a better place. When he spoke in Selma , the president said, “If you thin... ...ask somebody who lived through the Selma , or Chicago, or LA of the 1950s.” A... ...No. The reason he talked that way in Selma is because—our first instinct wheneve... Show more... Shaun Donovan ...and went and visited. They were in Selma , Alabama, which I had visited in ou... Samantha Tubman ...Then, I just remember when he did the Selma event in 2007, that was when we were a... ...protect him. Right. I remember that Selma event, because Senator Clinton was a... Josh DuBois ...There was another really big one in Selma in early 2007. This was probably m... ... [INTERRUPTION] We traveled to Selma . It was myself and Michae... ...beautiful moment. So that was Selma , both the highs of the speech and th... ...out the Black Panther Party. Hampton; Selma ; Zanesville, Ohio, in 2008, where h... ...of them in a pretty specific way, in Selma . It's a nice bridge into the campaig... Tyler Swanson ...tears that happened on that bridge in Selma , the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where folk... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Women and Girls Women and Girls go to the Republican Opposition Republican Opposition go to the Chicago Chicago go to the Counterterrorism Counterterrorism go to the Criminal Justice Criminal Justice