A beautiful, historic day in Selma
- March 7, 2015
- / Michael Lowery
- / entrecon
As we begin our Selma experience on Friday, our group from Pensacola left our hotel in Montgomery to join Pensacola civil rights icon Rev. H.K. Matthews.
In March 1965, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called for action in Selma, Ala., for a nonviolent march from Selma to Montgomery.
Rev. Matthews left Pensacola as a civil rights leader to become a follower and supporter in the movement in Selma during the call for action by Dr. King.
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Michael A. Lowery is chairman of the Escambia County Democratic Executive Committee andpPresident / business agent for Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1395 i Pensacola.[/caption]
On a beautiful sunny Friday, Rev. Matthews stood on the Edmund Pettus Bridge with a group from Pensacola and was interviewed by many media outlets to include NBC Washington correspondent Christine Donnelly.
As we slowly walked over the bridge, I listen to Rev. Matthews talk about his scrapped knees and bruised body from being beaten on the bridge 50 years before on the day forever known as “Bloody Sunday.”
Rev. Matthews told Christine Donnelly that even at 87 years old he still had the scars on his knees, but he is proud of being a part of that historic moment in time.
Nevaeh, my 13-year-old daughter, stood on the bridge and stared at the peek.
"I thought it would be bigger Daddy," she said, watching school-age kids march over the bridge singing songs, and in, turn keeping a close eye on Rev. Matthews.
After a few moments she was talking to other kids and educating them on U.S. Rep. John Lewis.
On “Bloody Sunday,” Lewis, as chairman of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, was among the leaders of the march and one of the marchers who severely beaten and seriously injured on that fateful day.
"He was in front when they marched over the bridge, and did you know he's a Congressman from South Carolina?" Nevaeh said.
This was going to be an educational event and now it was time to head back to Montgomery and tour the Rosa Park Museum.
What an amazing museum and I'd recommend it to all to visit.
Day two was going to be an eventful day as President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, were to be in Selma on Saturday, along with President George W. Bush, and his wife, Laura.
Time for rest before another inspiring and historic day.
Michael A. Lowery is chairman of the Escambia County Democratic Executive Committee andpPresident / business agent for Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1395 i Pensacola.[/caption]
On a beautiful sunny Friday, Rev. Matthews stood on the Edmund Pettus Bridge with a group from Pensacola and was interviewed by many media outlets to include NBC Washington correspondent Christine Donnelly.
As we slowly walked over the bridge, I listen to Rev. Matthews talk about his scrapped knees and bruised body from being beaten on the bridge 50 years before on the day forever known as “Bloody Sunday.”
Rev. Matthews told Christine Donnelly that even at 87 years old he still had the scars on his knees, but he is proud of being a part of that historic moment in time.
Nevaeh, my 13-year-old daughter, stood on the bridge and stared at the peek.
"I thought it would be bigger Daddy," she said, watching school-age kids march over the bridge singing songs, and in, turn keeping a close eye on Rev. Matthews.
After a few moments she was talking to other kids and educating them on U.S. Rep. John Lewis.
On “Bloody Sunday,” Lewis, as chairman of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, was among the leaders of the march and one of the marchers who severely beaten and seriously injured on that fateful day.
"He was in front when they marched over the bridge, and did you know he's a Congressman from South Carolina?" Nevaeh said.
This was going to be an educational event and now it was time to head back to Montgomery and tour the Rosa Park Museum.
What an amazing museum and I'd recommend it to all to visit.
Day two was going to be an eventful day as President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, were to be in Selma on Saturday, along with President George W. Bush, and his wife, Laura.
Time for rest before another inspiring and historic day.
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