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March on Selma 50th Anniversary

Philicia Jones
Mar 8, 2015
1 min read

This weekend we have withnessed many gathering celebrating the memories of those who were apart of the March in Selma 50 years ago. Many of the participants this year and are saying this is the biggest of the marches that they have seen in the city since the beginning.

In President Obama's speech given from the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, he mentions John Lewis, who During his tenure as chairman of the SNCC, they opened Freedom Schools, launched the Mississippi Freedom Summer, and organized the voter registration efforts that led to the pivotal Selma to Montgomery marches. The three Selma to Montgomery marches in 1965 were part of the Selma Voting Rights Movement and led to the passage that year of the Voting Rights Act, a landmark federal achievement of the 1960s American Civil Rights Movement. Activists publicized the three protest marches to walk the 54-mile highway from Selma to the Alabama state capital of Montgomery as showing the desire of black American citizens to exercise their constitutional right to vote, in defiance of segregationist repression.

A great moment to see so many come together to support a positive movement. This is a moment of Progress.

Catch President Obama's Speech here: