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Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee Schedule of Events

Thursday, February 299:00am-11:00am Tipton Middle School, 2500 Tipton St, Selma, AL Voting Rights History Bowl9:00am-3:00pm Education Summit for Teachers: “High

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Largest annual civil rights event in the U.S. taking place in Selma

Largest annual civil rights event in the U.S. taking place in Selma
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Selma 59th anniversary Bridge Crossing Jubilee happening this week

Selma 59th anniversary Bridge Crossing Jubilee happening this week
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Annual Bridge Crossing Jubilee in Selma only two weeks away

This year's Bridge Crossing Jubilee marks the 59th anniversary of Bloody Sunday and the Selma to Montgomery March.

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Honorary Degree Ceremony & Oliver Tambo Lecture with Leymah Gbowee

John J. DeGioia President of Georgetown University requests the pleasure of your company for the conferral of an honorary degree upon Leymah Gbowee 2011 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Founder and President of the Gbowee Peace Foundation Africa, and Executive Director of the Institute on Gender, Law, and Transformative Peace As a special feature of […]

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POTUS and VPOTUS Updates March 6 2023

President Biden headlines 2023 International Association of Fire Fighters Legislative Conference. Vice President Harris participates in moderated conversation on Biden-Harris administration investments to combat climate crisis and build a new clean energy economy.

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Remembering Bloody Sunday in Selma

The Bridge Crossing Jubilee does not come in February, which is Black History Month. However, the Bridge Crossing Jubilee is Black History.

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Bloody Sunday memorial honors late civil rights giants

Updated: March 07, 2021 07:20 PM
Created: March 07, 2021 12:27 AM
SELMA, Ala. (AP) - Activists who gathered virtually and in person to commemorate a pivotal day in the civil rights struggle that became known as Bloody Sunday called on people to continue the fight for voting rights as they also honored giants of the civil rights movement, including the late U.S. Rep. John Lewis, who died last year.
The Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee marks the 56th anniversary of Bloody Sunday - the day on March 7, 1965, that civil rights marchers were brutally beaten by law enforcement officers on Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge. Lewis, the Rev. Joseph Lowery, the Rev. C.T. Vivian, and attorney Bruce Boynton were the late civil rights leaders honored on Sunday.

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Bloody Sunday memorial to honor late civil rights giants

WBAL Radio 1090 AM - Bloody Sunday memorial to honor late civil rights giants

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'Voter suppression is still alive and well': Bloody Sunday anniversary event honors late civil rights giants

'Voter suppression is still alive and well': Bloody Sunday anniversary event honors late civil rights giants
Updated: 6:54 PM CST Mar 7, 2021
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TAKE ON THIS PEOPLE WAS FACE-TO-FACE. >> IMAGES LIKE THIS WERE ALL TOO COMMON AS AFRICAN-AMERICANS TRIED TO REGISTER TO VOTE. SHERIFF’S BLOCKING THE DOORS TO THE COURTHOUSE AS YOU GET READY TO VOTE THIS YEAR, WE ARE TAKING A LOOK AT THE CRUCIAL ROLE ALABAMA PLAYED IN MAKING THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT OF 1965 A REALITY. >> IAN REITZ TRAVELED TO SELMA TO LOOK AT HOW CERTAIN EVENTS IN OUR STATE LED TO CHANGE IN OUR NATION AND HOW THAT HISTORY IS BEING PRESERVED. >> I TURNED 12 JUST FOUR DAYS AFTER THE SELMA-MONTGOMERY MARCH. IAN: SAM WALKER LIVED SOME OF THE HISTORY ON DISPLAY AT THE NATIONAL VOTING RIGHTS MUSEUM AND INSTITUTE IN SELMA. >> AT 11-YEARS-OLD I GOT LOCKED IN ONE OF THESE CELLS TWO TIME. IAN: YOU DID? >> YES. MARCHING FOR THE RIGHT TO VOTE. IAN: DECADES LATER, HE RETURNED HOME TO ENSURE THAT HISTORY WAS PRESERVED. TODAY, HE’S THE MUSEUM’S HISTORIAN. WHEN SAM SHOWED ME AROUND, HE WAS QUICK TO POINT OUT THE STORIES OF FOOT SOLDIERS >> EVERYONE HAS SEEN THE PICTURES AND IMAGES OF DR. KING LEADING THE CIVIL RIGHT MARCHES. THEN YOU SEE ALL THE PEOPLE WALKING IN BACK OF DR. KING. THOSE ARE THE PEOPLE WE CALL THE FOOT SOLDIER IAN: MEN AND WOMEN, YOUNG AND OLD, WHO MARCHED FOR VOTING RIGHTS DURING BLOODY SUNDAY ON THE EDMOND PETTUS BRIDGE OR TH FIVE-DAY DAY MARCH FROM SELMA TO MONTGOMERY. SAM: WHEN YOU WALK THROUGH T MUSEUM, YOU WILL SEE FOOTPRINTS. IA THOSE FOOTPRINTS ARE FROM THE FOOT SOLDIERS WHO HAVE SHARED AND RECORDED THEIR STORIES AT THE MUSEUM, SOME 3,000 OF THEM TO DATE. THE STEPS THEY TOOK IN HISTORY. NOW ON DISPLAY NEXT TO BLACK AND WHITE PICTURES THAT CAPTURED THE VIOLENCE THAT MARCHERS FACED IN THE 1960’S. THOSE VERY IMAGES, SHARED AROUND THE GLOBE AT THE TIME, AND HELPED TURN THE STRUGGLE FOR VOTING RIGHTS IN ALABAMA INTO A NATIONWIDE ISSUE. SAM: NOBODY THOUGHT ABOUT MAKING HISTORY WHEN THEY WAS DOING IT, THEY JUST WANTED TO BE TREATED BETTER. IAN: WHILE THE 15TH AMENDMENT GUARANTEED AFRICAN-AMERICANS THE RIGHT TO VOTE, EXERCISING THAT RIGHT WAS NOT EASY IN SOME SOUTHERN STATES LIKE ALABAMA. >> IN 1901, THEY INSTITUTED JIM CROW LAWS AND BLACK CODES, INTO THE CONSTITUTION. THAT WAS MAINLY TO KEEP AFRICAN AMERICANS FROM EXERCISING THEIR RIGHTS TO VOTE. SO THINGS LIKE THE GRANDFATHER CLAUSE, WHICH IS A CLAUSE THAT SAID IF YOUR GRANDFATHER WAS A SLAVE AND COULD NOT VOTE, THEN YOU COULD NOT VOTE, IT WAS INSTITUTED INTO THE CONSTITUTION AS WELL AS LITERACY TESTS AND FULL TAXES. IAN: CHARLES WOODS IS THE EDUCATION PROGRAM MANAGER AT THE BIRMINGHAM CIVIL RIGHTS INSTITUTE. HE SAYS WHEN AFRICAN AMERICANS BEGAN TO EXERCISE THEIR RIGHT TO PROTEST WITH THE MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT IN THE 1950’S, THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT REALLY STARTED TO TAKE SHAPE AND ALONG THE WAY , OUR STATE WAS GROUND ZER CHARLES: MONTGOMERY IS WHERE THE SOUTHERN STATES SECEDED FROM UNION TO CREATE CONFEDERACY, AND THE SAME PLACE WHERE DR. KING STOOD ON STEPS TO SAY WHY VOTING RIGHTS ARE IMPORTANT. IAN: TODAY, YOU’LL FIND A FEW CAMPAIGN SIGNS RIGHT ACROSS FR THE MUSEUM. A SIGN THAT AN ELECTION IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER. INSIDE, THERE ARE SIGNS EVERYWHERE REMINDING US THAT THE RIGHT TO VOTE FOR AFRICAN-AMERICANS IN THAT ELECTION DID NOT COME EASY. AND THAT FIGHT SHOULD NEVER BE FORGOTTE SAM: THIS IS JUST RIGHT OUTSIDE THIS WINDOW. IAN: THAT IS WHY 27 YEARS AFTER HE FIRST WALKED IN THOSE HALLS, SAM IS HERE DAY AFTER DAY, SHARING THAT HISTORY, AND INSPIRING OTHERS TO GO OUT AND MAKE THEIR OWN. SAM: I WANT THEM TO SEE THEMSELVES IN THESE PICTURES. THESE WERE ORDINARY REGULAR PEOPLE. THESE WERE NOT ELITE PEOPLE. NOTHING SPECIA THEY JUST WANTS TO DO WHAT THEY COULD TO MAKE THE SITUATION BETTER. EVERY INDIVIDUAL CAN DO WHAT THEY CAN TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE. IAN: IAN REITZ, WVTM 13 NEWS. LISA: THIS YEAR MARKS 150 YEARS SINCE THE 15TH AMENDMENT WAS ADDED AND 55 YEARS SIN

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