53 Years Ago This Morning: The Kings Began A Third, And Successful, March To Selma -- From Montgomery...

There were about 3,200 people, poor and wealthy, black and white -- women and men -- who rose early, and left, on foot with Dr. King and Coretta 53 years ago this morning. . .

They slept in the fields at night, under cover of federal military troops, as the Alabama state troopers were instructed to make the march as difficult as they possibly could. As they marched, day by day, their numbers swelled to over 25,000 -- with nearly two thirds of those being whites who joined along the way, having read of this, the third attempt.

Then, after a federal court judge ruled that SCLC had the right to march over the Selma bridge, to protest for civil and human rights -- a few days from now, in 1965. . . they did just that.

. . . .Our lives are not fully lived if we're not willing to die for those we love, for what we believe. . . .

-- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1965)

I needed to shift the Universe's energy, here -- we have an end (albeit a violently awful one) to the white terrorist's bombings in Austin -- and now we must move forward. We must march onward. And so we will -- as "yes, we can. . ." And yes, I will. Smile. . . .



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