Cory Booker to deliver keynote remarks at Brown Chapel AME Church Commemorative Service in Selma, Alabama
Newark, NJ -- On Sunday, March 3, 2019 Cory Booker will deliver keynote remarks at Brown Chapel AME Church’s Annual “Bloody Sunday” Commemorative Community Service in Selma, Alabama.
The annual service commemorates the 1965 Selma Movement for Voting Rights and the watershed Bloody Sunday march where demonstrators were beaten back by Alabama State Troopers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The moment galvanized support for passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma served as a command center and spiritual home during the Selma Movement for voting rights in 1965 and as the origin point of the three major marches of the Selma movement.
Statement from Pastor Leodis Strong, Brown Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church:
“Cory Booker has dedicated his professional life to paying forward the deeds and sacrifices of the Selma generation. When so many of our leaders traffic in the currencies of fear and division, Sen. Booker’s message of love and courageous empathy is precisely what we need to hear as we tackle the challenges that our generation must now confront.”
