As you will see from the video below the right to vote is steeped in blood, sweat, tears, and sacrifice for African Americans. This video was recorded pre-cell phones in Selma, Alabama in 1965. In this video, he was assaulted by Alabama Law Enforcement Officers for trying to register to vote at the Dallas County Courthouse in Selma, Alabama.
This is the history that confederate memorials, monuments, and names on buildings reflect.
We owe you much Rev. Vivian, the world is a better place because of you, rest in peace, power and love with the #Legends.
This is why the Confederate monument located on the grounds of the Madison County Alabama courthouse is offensive and needs to be removed and replaced immediately.
Rev. C. T. Vivian of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, SCLC, is telling the Dallas County Sheriff Jim Clark (a staunch segregationist) that by not letting them into the courthouse, he's breaking an injunction
We owe you much Rev. Vivian, the world is a better place because of you, rest in peace, power and love with the #Legends.
— Be A King (@BerniceKing) July 17, 2020
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