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Never Lose Sight of Freedom was created for the opening of the Lowndes Interpretive Center at the Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail. It features old footage, oral histories, and eyewitness accounts about the Civil and Voting Rights Movement in Selma, Alabama. Follow the footsteps of 1965 voting rights marchers with this guided tour to this historic struggle. Meet the people, see the places, and feel the events that reshaped U.S. democracy forever.
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00:00Oh freedom, oh freedom, oh freedom over me, over me, and before I be afraid, I be afraid.
00:14At times, history and fate meet at a single time, in a single place, in man's unending search for freedom.
00:27So it was at Lexington and Concord, so it was a century ago at Appomattox, so it was in Selma,
00:38Alabama.
00:45You give 20 million people the right to vote, right, who know why they want to vote, and you've changed
00:53the very nature of things that happen in the country totally.
00:57To be continued.
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