Re-enactment of the Selma March, Boston, 10/30/05

http://www.mfh.org/retracingthestruggle/march.html

On October 30 at 1:00, Congressman John Lewis of Georgia will lead a commemorative march from the First Church in Roxbury to Boston Common, where more than 5,000 people are expected to participate in an effort to better understand the struggle for civil rights. The Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities and a consortium of civil rights and race relations organizations is organizing this important commemoration with support from Boston-area foundations and businesses.

In March 1965, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led the historic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama to protest voting restrictions for blacks. Five months later, Congress passed the historic Voting Rights Act of 1965 enforcing the right granted to all Americans by the 15th Amendment to the Constitution.

In April of 1965, Dr. King led marchers on a five-mile walk from Roxbury to a rally at Boston Common to protest de facto school segregation in Boston. In June, the state legislature passed The Racial Imbalance Act outlawing "racially imbalanced" schools.

What is a re-enactment of that march without crossing the Edmund Pettus bridge?

And in the wrong month?

Maybe I'm missing something.

In any case John Lewis rocks!

and the March also commemorates a March in Boston as well. And, as you say, it's a good idea.

Ah, I'm there.

I hope that members of the MA Congressional delegation (or at least the ones from the districts that include and border Boston) attend as well. This is a great idea and I will be going.