Selma Jubilee March 5-9, 2015

 

Foot-soldiers as well as luminaries of the civil rights movement will be on hand at the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma March 5-9, 2015. President Obama is coming, too. Some
speakers: Claudette Colvin, Dr. Bernard Lafayette, Robert "Bob" Moses, Diane Nash, Rev. C.T. Vivian
as well as Moral Monday Movement founder Rev. William Barber.  

Claudette Colvin, who wouldn't give up her seat on a Montgomery bus...on March 2, 1955. Why didn't she become the face of the bus boycott?

Below is one of the books about the people who helped behind the scenes. I wrote about The House by the Side of the Road and Selma, Lord, Selma (book and movie) in the Houston Chronicle online. In 2013 I called the author of this book and she said she had three interviews that week, to read the book and call back if I had questions. I didn't call back and she died in 2014. Her daughter, who lives in Atlanta, is working to make the house a museum and meeting place.