I went to church today...

[Jenny A]

In true rememberences both sides of the struggle are remembered. In political propaganda only one side is heard.

It was neither a museum nor a reenactment, nor yet a memorial. The march was political speech, then and now. And it was a celebration of rights gained. As such it presents the view point of those who organized and attended the event. So?

What happened in selma was a on site rememberance as per my Auschwitz example. and when done properly they do include the opposition so the truth is perserved, and the line into propaganda is not crossed.

It was what the event organizers wanted it to be. And that was not a history lesson or a historical reenactment. Though your police were inevitably represented as crowd control. Here they are behaving themselves:

I have never seen the Civil Rights Movement taught in such a way as to suggest either that there weren't law abiding police officers who did their jobs properly

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or that there weren't white people who participated one the side of civil rights.

The move from non volient protests in the late 60's to violent protests was supposedly because of how all police handeled black protesters. The Black panters came into power on this point. How is it you missed that teaching?

Police behaved both well and badly at different times and places during the Civil Rights Era. They beat peaceful protesters and they protected black school children and they sometimes behaved neutrally. And yes the Black Panthers were responding to police violence. But teaching that by no means teaches that all police behaved that way. I've never been taught otherwise. However, we expect police to uphold the law. It isn't news when they do. It's news when they don't.

But that does not change the fact that at this particular bridge peaceful marchers asking for no more than equal rights were met with officers wielding billy clubs.

How many more peaceful protests ended uneventfully?

Many. But this one is historic in part because it didn't. And it is worth celebrating because it can now be done without violence.