Latest News: Booker asks Selma crowd to make his dream come true

SELMA, Ala. – Latest news on the Democratic presidential candidates at the 54th anniversary celebrations of the civil rights march in Selma, Alabama, known as "Bloody Sunday" (all local times):

2:25 p.m.

Senator Cory Booker delivered a fiery speech Sunday in front of hundreds of people commemorating the civil rights march known as "Bloody Sunday."

Booker told the church crowd of Brown Chapel AME that this anniversary was the time to reaffirm his commitment to the fight for justice in America.

"It is time for us to defend this dream," said the Democrat. "It's time we dared to dream again in America – that's what it takes for America to be a big one." It's up to us to do the job that makes the dream come true. . "

Booker delivered a speech to the church, starting point of the 1965 march. Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio, who is also planning a run up to 2020, and candidate Hillary Clinton, presidential candidate of 2016, also attended the ceremony.

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12:50

Hillary Clinton told a crowd in a historic black church in Selma, Ala., That the lack of essential elements was that the Voting Rights Act had contributed to her defeat against Donald Trump in 2016.

In 2013, the Supreme Court overturned part of the law that required the Ministry of Justice to review states with a history of racial discrimination as part of the vote. Congress has not solved the problem yet.

She said "it makes a big difference."

Clinton warned Brown Chapel's public of the need to remain vigilant about the removal of voters before the 2020 elections.

Clinton is in Selma to mark the 54th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday", the civil rights march that mobilized support for the passage of the Voting Rights Act.

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12:05

Civil rights activist Jesse Jackson said what he calls "measures to remove the" right to vote "are very real, very alive" today.

Jackson and several White House hopefuls are among the many gathered in Selma, Alabama, to commemorate the 54th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday". It was the civil rights market that became so violent that it prompted support for the passing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown, who plans to run for the presidency, said that purging voters lists, redistributing constituencies "and simply changing the rules in a subtle way" are among the ways to remove the right to vote .

He said: "This struggle continues and has become personal in many ways because the right to vote is so important to our country."

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11:15

Sherrod Brown says that Democratic presidential candidates are "respectful" – and he contrasts with the feuding between Republicans who ran in 2016.

The Ohio senator was in the plane for Alabama. Two senators were already present in the 2020 race, Corey Booker of New Jersey and Bernie Sanders of Vermont. They mark the 54th anniversary of the "Bloody Sunday" civil rights march.

Brown says the three "respect each other and love each other."

He described the 2016 Republican candidates as "a group of people who were shooting at each other, clearly did not like it."

Brown says that he will decide by the end of the month here that he will join the group of Democrats who run for president.

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7:20

Several Democrat White House candidates visit one of the United States Civil Rights Hot spots to pay tribute to this legacy and highlight their own links to the movement.

Meaning. Cory Booker of New Jersey and Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who are already competing in the 2020 race, and Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio, who may soon join them, plan to attend ceremonies marking the anniversary of the "Bloody Sunday" in Selma, Alabama.

On March 7, 1965, peaceful protesters were repulsed by Alabama soldiers while they were attempting to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge. It was a moment that mobilized support for the passage of the Voting Rights Act later that year.

The commemoration of this year marks the beginning of a Democratic primary focused on racial issues.