Charles Mauldin began the Foot Troopers Breakfast to provide an area for many who took half within the civil rights motion to return again the place a lot occurred and have a platform to share their tales.
It takes place on Saturday morning of Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee festivities and options dozens of foot troopers recalling the times and urging for continued efforts for equality and voting rights.
Hattie Chambers-Givan hasn’t missed a Jubilee since returning to Alabama from Chicago in 2008. She got here this 12 months to help mates who had been impacted by the Jan. 12 twister, but additionally in honor of her husband of 49 years, David Givan, was a foot soldier and handed away in Birmingham the day after the twister hit. She additionally hoped to see President Biden throughout his go to on Sunday.
“This is sort of a reunion. I really like the camaraderie and seeing the folks every year,” Chambers-Givan mentioned.
Mauldin was 17 when he marched with protestors on Bloody Sunday. He was overwhelmed that day whereas combating for equal voting rights and celebrates at Jubilee how his mother and father had been among the many first to register to vote in Dallas County after the Voting Rights Act was handed later that 12 months in 1965.
This 12 months, the breakfast was held in partnership with Widespread Energy, a civic engagement and academic group primarily based in Seattle. Through the occasion, Dallas County District Decide Vernetta R. Perkins spoke and unique foot troopers Richard Smiley, Albert Southall, Charles Mauldin, and JoAnne Bland had been honored with awards for his or her work inside the group of Selma.
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