The Bridge Crossing Jubilee remembers Bloody Sunday Selma, AL - The Bridge Crossing Jubilee, the Annual Commemoration of Bloody Sunday, and the Selma to Montgomery March, is the largest annual event in America that commemorates the struggle and successes of the Civil and Voting Rights Movements.
Held in Selma, AL, March 3rd - 7th at and near the Edmund Pettus Bridge, living legends and foot soldiers of the Movement come to commemorate and celebrate. Others who have come to make the pilgrimage include the King family, President Bill Clinton, President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Winnie Mandela, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Representative John Lewis, Reverends Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, Harry Belafonte, Dick Gregory, Vivica A. Fox, Ambassadors, and many others. The Jubilee is held the first weekend of March each year and has attracted approximately 30,000 people. Jubilee events begin on Thursday, March 3rd with a Mass Meeting. Reverend Bernard Lafayette will be the speaker. Lafayette was the first civil rights worker who came to Selma to help fight for the right to vote. On Friday, inductions at the National Voting Rights Museum and Institute include Women’s Hall of Fame Inductees: Anne Braden, Lucy Burns and Terri Sewell; Legal Guardians Room inductees Federal Judge U.W. Clemons, John Doar, Mississippi Exhibit Inductees Marion Barry, Lawrence Guyot, Robert Moses; Lowndes County Exhibit Inductee Ruby Sales, Selma Room Inductee Colia L. Clark. Inductions into the Foot Soldiers Hall of Fame will be conducted immediately after the Reenactment and the Florida A&M University Choir will perform. The Invisible Giants Conference and the Children’s Sojourn start in the morning. The Children’s Sojourn attracts over 5,000 youth. Friday evening, A Public Conversation will feature social activist and social critic Dick Gregory; Mary Liuzzo Lilleboe, daughter of slain civil rights worker, Viola Liuzzo; and Tom Burrell, author of Brainwashed: Dispelling the Myth of Black Inferiority. It will be closed out with a community Kwanza conducted by the father of Kwanza, Dr. Maulana Karenga. There are 14 events on Saturday beginning with a golf tournament sponsored by Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. and a parade that is followed by an all day street festival. Signature events include the Freedom Children’s Breakfast, inductions into the Wall of Resistance at the Ancient Africa, Enslavement & Civil Museum, and the Freedom Flame Awards Banquet. Wall of Resistance inductees include Njere Alghanee, Fred Hampton, Jr., post humus, Drs. Leonard Jeffries, Maulana Karenga, and Sonia Sanchez. -- http://www.hvpress.net/news/138/ARTICLE/10008/2011-02-16.html%3E Via InstaFetch -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sixties-L" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sixties-l?hl=en.
