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FILE - In this March 1, 1965 file photo Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. hops over a puddle as it rains in Selma, Ala. King led hundreds of African Americans to the court house in a voter registration drive. At front is civil rights worker Andrew Young, and at right, behind King is Rev. Ralph Abernathy. Today's protests across America against racial injustice are being watched closely by people who five decades ago faced jail cells, bloody assaults, snarling dogs and even potential assassination in the battle against institutional racism. Young, a King lieutenant, marvels at both the sizes and the spontaneity of the protests. The former Democratic congressman, Atlanta mayor and United Nations ambassador recalled activists spending three months to organize for a 1963 Birmingham, Alabama, campaign in which King and other protesters were jailed. (AP Photo, File)

Icons of 1960s civil rights movement voice cautious optimism

By DAN SEWELL and RUSSELL CONTRERAS - Associated Press

Bob Moses, a director of the Mississippi Summer Project and organizer for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) answers questions about Freedom Summer in 1964 during a national youth summit hosted by the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014 at the Old Capitol Museum in Jackson, Miss. More than 400 students at a dozen locations in the U.S. watched the webcast in which veterans of the civil rights movement and others discussed Freedom Summer, the 1964 project that challenged segregation by pushing to register black Mississippi voters. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Activist: Strengthen US voting rights, education

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS - Associated Press