Feb 19, 2025

5:00 PM CST

Lincoln Normal School 207 Lincoln Street Marion, AL 36756

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Join us as we commemorate the Marion Foot Soldiers, whose fight for voting rights and civil rights led to the Selma to Montgomery March.  During the early months of 1965 residents of Marion Alabama, mainly young students began to start “good trouble” conducting sit-ins and marching for civil and voting rights.  After the arrest of Mr. James Orange residents and students of Lincoln Normal School met at Zion United Methodist Church for a mass meeting that would end with a peaceful march to the Perry County Jail.  Marchers were met with an angry mob of citizens and police, who beat the marchers and shot Lincoln graduate and Army Veteran Mr. Jimmie Lee Jackson.

At 5:00 pm at Lincoln Normal School on February 19, 2025 we will hear firsthand from the students who attended Lincoln and was recruited to become Foot Soldiers.  Dr. Jannette Howard-Moore, Margaret Howard, and Edward Howard siblings from Marion who marched during Bloody Sunday, Dr. Moore was one of 17 people that were hospitalize after the assault on the Edmund Pettus Bridge.  All three would go on to participate in the Selma to Montgomery march and along with others are somewhat responsible for the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.