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Texans among those to 'keep the torch going' in Selma

March 7, 2015

U.S. Rep Marc Veasey, D-Fort Worth, joined a bipartisan delegation in Selma this weekend, listening to Obama and visiting historic sites.

He posted on Facebook about his visit to Brown Chapel AME Church, which served as a triage site 50 years ago for those injured in the march.

"While we have made great strides in the voting rights movement, fifty years later we continue to fight restrictive voter ID laws and heavily gerrymandered districts," he wrote. "It is my hope that we can look back on history and apply these lessons we learned to today."