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Check out our videos and photo gallery below:

Also learn more about the history with Mrs. Mary Boone, wife of the late Reverend RIchard Boone, a foot soldier and civil rights movement organizer.

 

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  Keep Your Eyes on the Prize

  The Walking Classroom program brought hundreds of people from all over the world to the Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail to recreate the historic march during the 50th anniversary.

  Duration:

  1 minute, 42 seconds

 

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  The City of St. Jude

  The City of St. Jude was the fourth campsite of the Selma to Montgomery March, but it's role in the lives of African Americans during the time period of the Jim Crow South was much more. It was a safe place for African Americans to seek medical care, and attend school. On March 24, 1965, thousands of marchers gathered at St. Jude to celebrate the march and re-charge in preparation for the last 4 miles of the march to the Capitol the following day.

  Duration:

  3 minutes, 43 seconds

 

Duration:

22 minutes, 41 seconds

The 1965 Selma Voting Rights Movement and Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March story as told through the words of Footsoldiers that were part of the movement.

 

Duration:

22 minutes, 41 seconds

The 1965 Selma Voting Rights Movement and Selma to Montgomery March story told through the voices of Footsoldiers of the movement - Audio Description