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Sunday, Sunday, Sunday: Obama v. Clinton in Selma
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ABC News' Jake Tapper Reports: Senators Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and Barack Obama, D-Ill., will be going mano a mano, pew to pew, this Sunday morning, March 4, at rival churches just yards apart in Selma, Alabama.
The occasion is the annual Bridge Crossing Jubilee, held to commemorate the historic March 7, 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march known as "Bloody Sunday," during which civil rights marchers were beaten by state troopers as they attempted to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
Selma officials say they cannot remember a time where competing presidential candidates showed up at the same time for the event. The presence of both candidates shows just how competitive the race has gotten when it comes to the African-American vote -- a key Democratic constituency.
Schedules are still being worked out, but according to event organizers and the Obama campaign, the day looks like this:
Obama -- who was the first to publicly commit to the Selma events -- attends the "Unity Breakfast" at Wallace Community College, followed by Sunday services at Brown Chapel AME Church, where the march kicked off 42 years ago.
The junior senator from Illinois will speak and be in the company of two congressmen who invited him to the event: Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., who participated in the 1965 march and was beaten during it, and Rep. Artur Davis, R-Ala., the local congressmen (and Obama's old Harvard Law School chum).
At the same time, just a few hundred yards away on Martin Luther King Jr. Street, Sen. Clinton will speak at the First Baptist Church services. Southern Christian Leadership Conference President Charles Steele will attend with her.
Obama is also scheduled to speak at a pre-march rally outside the Brown Chapel AME Church and both Obama and Clinton will participate in a reenactment of the march across the Pettus bridge.
Later that day, Clinton will help induct her husband -- who will not be there -- into the National Voting Rights Museum's Hall of Fame. ABC News' John Cochran notes that then-President Bill Clinton attended the march's 35th anniversary on on March 5, 2000.
Incidentally, that morning in Selma the Rev. Al Sharpton will speak at Second Baptist Church, while the Rev. Jesse Jackson is to speak at Tabernacle Baptist Church.
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