Today, March 1st, 1:00 p.m. Civil Rights Memorial Center (CRMC)a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and alabama state courthousekicks off the Jubilee weekend with the annual wreath-laying ceremony.
Since 1998, the Institute on Faith and Politics has sponsored pilgrimages that take participants to the sites of the civil rights movement in Alabama. By 2009, the late Congressman John R. Lewis led a delegation of Congress, civil rights leaders, clergy and others to the SPLC's Civil Rights Memorial Center to remember the men and women who died in the civil rights movement. As a sign of respect, flowers began to be laid. .
CRMC has reinstated the wreath-laying ceremony in 2023 to honor Congressman Lewis' life and legacy. 40 martyrs It is engraved on the monument. The names on the list include an activist who was targeted for the death penalty for his civil rights work, a random victim of a vigilante group determined to stop the modern civil rights movement (1954-1968), and It includes those who sacrificed their lives to bring new awareness to the struggle.
Featured speakers include:
margaret fan He is president and CEO of the Southern Poverty Law Center and its lobbying arm, the SPLC Action Fund.
Tafeni English Lev He is the director of the Civil Rights Memorial Center and the Alabama State Office.
Jerick Lewis He is executive director of the John R. Lewis Legacy Institute and a native of Troy, Alabama.
More speaker announcements will follow.
WHO: Civil Rights Memorial Center and Southern Poverty Law Center
What: Jubilee wreath-laying ceremony honoring the late Congressman John Lewis and 40 martyrs at the Civil Rights Memorial Center
When: Friday, March 1, 1:00 PM Central Time
Location: Civil Rights Memorial Center, 400 Washington Avenue, Downtown Montgomery
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