I was extremely honored to join civil rights leaders, Congressmen John Lewis and James Clyburn, and other members of Congress this past weekend in the 11th Congressional Civil Rights Pilgrimage in Alabama.

The pilgrimage marked events that took place in March of 1965 when activists for equal civil rights marched from Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma to the state capitol in Montgomery. Only blocks from the church, state troopers clashed with marchers and the day has since become known as “Bloody Sunday.” Participants of the pilgrimages traced the steps of those protestors from Brown Chapel across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Sunday, March 6th.