Dallas Morning News
Dallas groups will be busy this week leading local activities to coincide with the 50th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday” in Selma, Ala.
Commemorations in Selma began this week. They will peak Sunday with a re-enactment of the Edmund Pettus Bridge crossing and will continue through March 21. This month’s activities recall events that led to the Aug. 6 passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act under President Lyndon Johnson.
•Led by the grass-roots organization Faith Friday, several hundred people are expected to gather from noon to 2 p.m. Friday at the west end of the Continental Avenue Bridge at Singleton Boulevard and Beckley Avenue. Dr. Juanita Wallace, who helped form Faith Friday last September to address issues of concern to the South Dallas/Fair Park area, said the assembly will feature speakers, choirs and faith-based groups, and will include calls for continued civil rights progress both locally and nationally.
Organizers said the gathering will commemorate March 1965 events at the Pettus Bridge in Selma, where state troopers and others attacked marchers during their first attempt to cross the bridge en route to Montgomery in pursuit of voting rights for black Americans.
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