53rd Selma Jubilee 2018 ~ Edmunds Pettus Bridge

 53rd Selma Jubilee in Selma, Alabama.

Selma and the Alabama Black Belt were the battlegrounds for the Voting Rights Movement that resulted in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Alabamians stood up and peacefully fought for the right to vote. SNCC, SCLC, national churches and religious organizations, civil rights and labor organizations, and stars of the Movement supported the Alabama Voting Rights Movement. We commemorate and thank them for their work, leadership and sacrifice. 

The Jubilee features more than 40 separate events that commemorate the Selma voting rights movement.                  Organizers say this year a Poor People’s Campaign Rally has been added.
“When Dr. King was assassinated 50 years ago that was his last work, working on the Poor People’s Campaign,” said Sam Walker.
“And so we’re going to pick it up 50 years later and carry it forward that Poor People’s Campaign effort spear-headed by Rev. William Barber.”

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