Election '08 in Civil Rights' Ground Zero

Barack Obama Election 2008 in the Cradle of the Civil Rights Movement Photographer Mario Tama visits Selma and Birmingham as the nation elects its first black American president

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A portrait of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. hangs in a barber shop in the Civil Rights District of Birmingham.

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