It's a kind of voodoo, I think

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SCLC/Women has placed eight markers in all, many of them continually vandalized.

"Racism is still alive and well in Alabama," the Rev. James Orange, tour transportation director, said at a news conference. "When we leave a monument, they shoot it up still."

Tour to trace 'Bloody Sunday' route

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 02/02/05

Three monuments to pioneers of the civil rights movement will be unveiled as part of a tour marking the 40th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery march for voting rights that ended in violence.

The tour is organized each year by Evelyn G. Lowery, and sponsored by SCLC/Women, which she founded in 1979 in affiliation with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, formed by her husband, the Rev. Joseph Lowery, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and others.

Posted by Prometheus 6 on February 2, 2005 - 9:45am :: Race and Identity