Students from Selma and Dallas County middle schools recognized the 62nd anniversary of the Nonviolent Student March for equality in a ceremony at RB Hudson Tuesday.

The march, which took place from RB Hudson to Carter Drug in downtown Selma in 1963, was inspired after white supremacists bombed 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham and killed four little girls.

Tuesday’s Unity Day event featured speeches from students representing various schools centered around the theme, "How Life During the Civil Rights Movement Impacted the World Today and Your Vision for the Future."

Civil rights foot soldiers Chief Henry Allen and attorney Charles Bonner also spoke about participating in the historic moment more than 60 years ago. 

After the program, students from Ellwood Middle and High Schools, R.B. Hudson Middle School, Martin Middle School, Keith High School, Southside High School, and Selma High School retraced part of the original march, with Bonner and Selma City Schools Superintendent David Scott guiding the way. This journey symbolized the commitment to honoring the past while forging a brighter future together.

Cindy Fisher is Publisher of the Black Belt News Network and Selma Sun. You can reach her by emailing cfisher@blackbeltnewsnetwork.com.

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