Vice President Joe Biden led a group across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, Sunday, to commemorate the 48th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, when police officers beat marchers when they crossed the bridge going from Selma to Montgomery.

From left: Selma Mayor George Evans, U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Alabama, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Biden, Rev. Al Sharpton and U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Georgia.

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