We will honor the late John Lewis and the sacrifices of those who
marched for voting rights from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery, in 1965.

Friend,

You are invited to join the Southern Poverty Law Center in marking the
58th anniversary of Bloody Sunday during a wreath-laying ceremony at 3
p.m. CT today at the Civil Rights Memorial
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in Montgomery, Alabama, to honor the late John Lewis and the
sacrifices of those who marched for voting rights from Selma, Alabama,
to Montgomery, in 1965. Marchers, led by Lewis and Hosea Williams,
were beaten mercilessly by white lawmen on Selma's Edmund Pettus
Bridge. The marchers were turned back that day. But the violence
outraged the nation and thousands of activists poured into Selma to
join the campaign, culminating in the completion of the 54-mile march
at the steps of the Alabama Capitol 18 days later and the eventual
passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

Margaret Huang
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, the SPLC's president and CEO; Tafeni English-Relf
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, Alabama state office director; Joe Levin
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, SPLC co-founder; and U.S. Rep. Nikema Williams
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, Democrat from Georgia, will be speaking. You can join us virtually
by participating in a live stream of the event on Facebook, Twitter,
Linkedin, 
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or on our website,
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 where ASL interpretation and live captions will be available.

Watch Live at 3 p.m. CT
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Sincerely,

Your Friends at the Southern Poverty Law Center

 


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