Central Los Angeles : Group Heading to Alabama to Reenact Civil Rights March
For a chance to relive a pivotal moment in the history of civil rights, a group of 40 African Americans and Latinos from South-Central Los Angeles boarded a bus Thursday for Selma, Ala., to reenact the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery march.
The participants, ages 17 to 21, are from the Community Build-Youth Fair Chance program, which provides training and counseling.
The group is composed of ex-gang members, single mothers and high school dropouts, said Bernice Sanders, a spokeswoman for the group. They will join other participants from across the country to commemorate the march that brought national attention to the civil rights movement.
The 1965 march lasted only 15 blocks because the participants were attacked by a mob.
“This gives them a sense that they are not just from South-Central, that they are members of a much larger group,” Sanders said.
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