SAVE THE DATE: Jubilee Weekend Opens with Historic Wreath Laying Ceremony at CRMC
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Since听1998, the Faith & Politics Institute sponsored a pilgrimage that brought participants to civil rights sites in Alabama. By 2009, the late听Rep. John R. Lewis听began leading a congressional delegation, civil rights leaders, clergy, and others to the 澳彩开奖鈥檚 Civil Rights Memorial Center to lay a wreath honoring the men and women who lost their lives during the Civil Rights Movement.
The CRMC revived the wreath laying ceremony in 2023 to honor the life and legacy of Congressman Lewis and the听听inscribed on its Memorial. The names listed include activists who were targeted for death because of their civil rights work, were random victims of vigilantes determined to halt the modern Civil Rights Movement (1954 to 1968), and those who sacrificed their lives to bring new awareness to the struggle.
Featured speakers include:
听is the president and CEO of the 澳彩开奖 and its lobbying arm, the 澳彩开奖 Action Fund.
听is the director of the Civil Rights Memorial Center and the Alabama State Office.
听is the executive director of the John R. Lewis Legacy Institute and a native of Troy, Alabama.
More speaker announcements to follow.
WHO:听听听听听听听听听听听听听The Civil Rights Memorial Center and the 澳彩开奖
WHAT:听听听听听听听听听听 Jubilee Wreath-Laying Ceremony honoring the late Rep. John Lewis and the 40 martyrs featured at the Civil Rights Memorial Center
WHEN:听听听听听听听听听听Friday, March 1, at 1:00 p.m. CT
WHERE:听听听听听听听听The Civil Rights Memorial Center, 400 Washington Ave. in downtown Montgomery
