Living Legacy Project Presents...
​Pivotal Events of the American Civil Rights Movement

The Selma Voting Rights Movement

Speaker Program 4: Sunday, April 25, 2021,  2:30 PDT, 3:30 MDT; 4:30 CDT; 5:30 EDT
Speakers: Ms. Joanne Bland
By the time Joanne Bland was a teenager, she had been arrested countless times in Selma, Alabama, fighting for equality and voting rights for African Americans. In 1965, she participated in the Bloody Sunday March, the day police attacked peaceful protestors on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. She worked with SNCC (The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee) to organize people in her home community to demand the right to vote and end police violence. And all throughout her life, she has stood-up against injustice wherever she sees it. 

In this program, Joanne Bland will share her story and how what happened in Selma has relevance for today. 

Speaker

Ms. Joanne Bland

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In Ms. Bland's own words, "During my lifetime, I have been both a witness and a participant in some of our nation's most consequential civil rights battles. In the early 60's, I began my activism, with the SNCC (The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee) organized for myself along with other children and teens in my neighborhood and area to participate in the Civil Rights Movement. Born and raised in Selma, Alabama, I have seen first hand how racism and segregation created a deadly divide between two races and decided that it was my duty to ensure that my voice was one of the many that was heard to create equality and voting rights for African Americans."

For more information about Ms. Bland, visit Iamjoannebland.com.
All programs are free. Donations will be accepted to support the phenomenal guest speakers/musicians participating in the series and the ongoing work of the Living Legacy Project.

​Suggested donation is $15 per program (more if you can, less if you can't). 

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