Bernard Lafayette shared his memories of the 1965 Selma March, the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign, and his analysis of current voter identification efforts.
Martin Luther King Jr. appointed Lafayette as the national program administrator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. During his work in Alabama, Lafayette served as one of the chief organizers of the Selma March which culminated in Bloody Sunday on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in March 1965 and he also served as chief organizer of the Poor People’s Campaign in 1968.
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