You are cordially invited to come to the 15th Annual Bridge Crossing Jubilee, March 6-10, 2008, Selma, Alabama. Our theme: One Vote, One Mic, One Movement: from Selma to Jena and Beyond! Take your pilgrimage across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, honor the ancestors who died for your right to vote, Join Dr. Cornel West for a public conversation, listen to great preachers from then and now, and pass on to youth leaders of the 21st century 43 years of a struggle for the right to vote.
During this incredible weekend, the National Voting Rights Museum & Institute will pay homage to those ancestors who died as well as celebrate those who have continue to fight to safeguard not only voting rights, but also civil and human rights around the world. On behalf of the Board of Directors and Staff of the National Voting Rights Museum & Institute, we extended to you a personal invitation to come and continue to be a part of making history.
The struggle to gain voting rights did not begin or end at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on March 7, 1965-it began with the birth of this Nation and continues until this day. Fifteen years ago, a group of elders (foot soldiers of the Voting Rights Movement) shared their stories with a group of youth (leaders of 21st Century Youth Leadership Movement) of how they struggled and fought to make the United States live up to "all men are created equal." Fifteen years after those conversations and 43 years after winning the right to vote, the National Voting Rights Museum & Institute (NVRM), the only facility of its kind in the world, opened its doors as a permanent memorial to the struggle to obtain voting rights for African Americans.
This year's pilgrimage to Selma will prove to be even better than years past. We have the greatest opportunity to elect an African America or a Woman to lead this country. None of that would be possible if it were not for the local unsung sheroes and heroes who took the beatings, endured the sufferings, and who displayed enormous courage in the face of death. Persons like Bernard LaFayette, Fannie Lou Hamer, Amelia Boynton and thousands of others who "WE" owe for winning "US" the right to vote-the most sacred gift in a democratic society.
So again, you are invited to be our special guest March 6-10, 2008 in historic Selma, Alabama. For a schedule, please see attached
Sincerely,
Angela Brown
Interim Director
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