Whakarāpopototia te tuhinga:  (CNN) E toru ngā nekehanga mai i Selma ki Montgomery i te Poutu-te-rangi 1965, ā, i ngaro a Rosa Parks i te tuatahi. Ko Parks, nana nei te mahi tutu a te iwi i whakaoho i te aukati pahi o Montgomery i te 1955, i neke ki Detroit e rua tau i muri mai mo nga take haumaru. Ko nga whakawehi mate, i Alabama, he nui rawa atu mo ia ki te manawanui. E waru tau a Parks, he wahine o te akomanga kaimahi, e mahi ana i te Stockton Sewing Co. i Michigan, e hanga ana i nga papa paraharaha, mo te utu iti. Engari i te Poutu-te-rangi 1, 1965, ka mutu tana mahi kia uru atu ki nga kaimahi o te U.S. Rep. John Conyers i Detroit. Ko te nekehanga tika pōti i te Tonga, i arahina e te Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., i honoa ki te kohuru o Malcolm X i taua Hui-tanguru, i whakahoutia tana hiahia mo te mahi torangapu tika. I te Ratapu, Poutu-te-rangi 7, i te whare o Parks i Detroit e matakitaki ana i te whakaaturanga pouaka whakaata a ABC o "Te Whakawa i Nuremberg" i te wa i pakaru ohorere ai te purongo mai i Selma, Alabama. I haere te mano o ngā kaitōrangapū tika pōti ki te piriti Edmund Pettus, e whiti ana i runga i te awa o Alabama, engari i whakaekehia e ngā pirihimana me ngā pirihimana o te kawanatanga o Alabama, ko te nuinga o rātau e mau ana i ngā kopare hau. I mua i te mauheretanga me te whiu i enei kaikorero i ahu atu ki te taone nui o te kawanatanga i Montgomery, he tawhiti 54 maero, ki te tono i te tiaki a te kawanatanga mo te tika ki te pooti o nga pango. I taua ahiahi o te Ratapu, ko John Lewis, 25 tau te pakeke, ko ia te tumuaki o te Komiti Whakakotahitanga o nga Kairangahau Kore-Hino, a inaianei he mema o te U.S. Congress mai i te 5th District o Georgia, i werohia e te hau roimata me te patu i a ia e ngana ana ki te whakawhiti i te piriti. Ko te kitenga i a ia e whiua ana i kino ai a Parks. I puta mai a Lewis hei tino maia me te taitamariki o nga kaiarahi tika tangata nui o te waa o Kennedy-Johnson, i korero ano i te Maehe i Washington i te 1963. I a ia e noho ana i te Tonga hei Kaihauturu mo te herekore, e 24 nga wa i hopukina ai ia, a, e whakapehapeha ana ki taua mea. No reira i te 9 o Maehe, hei whakahe ki te "Rātapu Toto", i mohiotia ai te kaupapa, i haereere a Parks i te huarahi whanui o Detroit o Woodward Avenue i roto i te honohono ki a Brother Lewis me etahi atu i hopukina i Selma....
I tae atu a Perehitini Obama ki ngā huihuinga hei whakanui i te tau 50 o te haerenga ki runga i te piriti. Douglas Brinkley: Ko te wāhi i whawhai ai te pōti tika kia tapaina ki a John Lewis.