45 years after Selma civil rights march, some see ways to go - USATODAY.com: SELMA — Robert Powell and Maria Gitin had not seen each other in 45 years until Sunday, more than four decades after they rode a donkey together through rural Wilcox County to register voters.
Gitin answered Martin Luther King's call for civil rights workers to come to Alabama after state and local law enforcement officers beat marchers trying to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma on March 7, 1965.
She was a white 19-year-old freshman at San Francisco State University. Powell was a 15-year-old black student in Wilcox County who became involved after hearing King speak in his hometown.
Powell and Gitin joined hundreds of people who converged on Selma on Sunday for the 45th commemoration of the bridge crossing.
