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Mandela Back in Hospital With Lung Infection

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The New York Times - 3/28/13, Lydia Polgreen

Nelson Mandela in 2008. Jon Hrusa/European Pressphoto Agency

JOHANNESBURG – Former President Nelson Mandela was admitted to the hospital to be treated for a recurring lung infection, South Africa’s current president, Jacob Zuma, said in a statement from his office on Thursday, appealing for people around the world to pray for him.

It was the third time that Mr. Mandela, 94, South Africa’s first black president and former leader of the dominant African National Congress, had been hospitalized in the past four months.

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Bloody Sunday, Revisited

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The New York Times - 3/02/13, Lincoln Caplan[Photographer unknown]

 

 

 

 



March 7, 1965, became known as Bloody Sunday in the annals of the civil rights struggle in America. That day, around 500 people set out to march the 54 miles from Selma, Ala., to the state capital in Montgomery in support of what would become the Voting Rights Act.

The voting rights movement was transformed into a national cause when the marchers were stopped on the Edmund Pettus Bridge as they left Selma. A state trooper told them they were “an unlawful assembly” and ordered them to disperse. When they did not, they were attacked by about 150 troopers and others who wielded billy clubs and tear gas. Fifty-eight people were treated for injuries at a local hospital, including Representative John Lewis, then 25 and chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, for a skull fracture.

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