On Sunday, Rev. Al Sharpton, President of National Action Network, delivered a keynote sermon in Selma, Alabama to honor the 57th anniversary of the historic Selma to Montgomery marches, which produced the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
On Sunday, Rev. Al Sharpton, President of National Action Network, delivered a keynote sermon in Selma, Alabama to honor the 57anniversary of the historic Selma to Montgomery marches, which produced the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Selma garnered national attention after a march led by John Lewis and Hosea Williams in response to the killing of Jimmie Lee Jackson ended in violence at the hands of state troopers — earning the title “Bloody Sunday.” Two weeks later, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led thousands of nonviolent demonstrators from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama for a rally on the capitol steps.
Brown Chapel, where King and civil rights leaders were headquartered, is under renovation and Sharpton’s sermon took place at a temporary location.
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