They were just four of the thousands of Americans who came to Selma 50 years ago, heeding the call of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. for people of conscience to join in protesting the plight of African-Americans in Alabama at the height of the civil rights movement.
The four marytrs ”” a Baptist deacon, a minister, a Unitarian laywoman and an Episcopal seminarian ”” are largely unknown, but they’re being remembered for sacrificing their lives for the rights of others.
The names of all four are etched in the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Ala., along with 36 others ”” starting with Mississippi minister George Lee, who died in 1955, and ending with King, who was assassinated in 1968.
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(RNS) The road from Selma was paved with the blood of four unsung martyrs
They were just four of the thousands of Americans who came to Selma 50 years ago, heeding the call of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. for people of conscience to join in protesting the plight of African-Americans in Alabama at the height of the civil rights movement.
The four marytrs ”” a Baptist deacon, a minister, a Unitarian laywoman and an Episcopal seminarian ”” are largely unknown, but they’re being remembered for sacrificing their lives for the rights of others.
The names of all four are etched in the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Ala., along with 36 others ”” starting with Mississippi minister George Lee, who died in 1955, and ending with King, who was assassinated in 1968.
Read it all.