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49 years ago today, 3200 civil rights activists began the Selma-to-Montgomery march.
Here’s a song I’ve always associated with the March, even though it was recorded a bit later: Curtis Mayfield and the Impressions with “We’re a Winner.”
Ed Kilgore is a political columnist for New York Magazine; a longtime contributor to the Washington Monthly; and a former policy adviser to three governors and a U.S. senator from his home state of Georgia.
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