To add a twist to the events, former President Bill Clinton will appear alongside his wife for the first time since she formally entered the race. Obama has been invited to deliver a keynote address at a function to commemorate the 42nd anniversary of Bloody Sunday, when activists traveled from Selma to Montgomery via the Edmund Pettus Bridge during a civil rights march.

Black voters are vital for any Democrat nominee to launch a serious challenge. In the 2004 Presidential election, Sen. John Kerry managed to grab 89 percent of the black vote underlining the significance of the vote for his Party.

Obama will be speaking at the Brown Chapel on Sunday, while Mrs Clinton has accepted an invitation to speak at a church very close by to the historic chapel. Mr Clinton will be inducted into the Voting Rights Hall of Fame on the occasion, The New York Times reports.

Sunday will mark the first time that Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Obama seek attention on the same campaign grounds. Both candidates are wary of the impact of the festival. This was signified by the fact that the Clintons are taking part in the daylong festivities, while Obama had to postpone a fund-raiser in Boston scheduled for Sunday evening.

The other Democrat hopeful, Sen. John Edwards declined to travel to Selma. Instead he will deliver a speech on the event at the University of California, Berkeley.

When the voting patterns are examined, South Carolina is fourth in line on the nomination calendar. And 50 percent of the electorate here is black. Hence the urgency shown by both Mrs Clinton and Mr Obama in trying to seal the vote in their favor. In Alabama around 60 percent of voters are black. The state is planning to hold the elections on February 2.
 

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