Obama to speak at commemoration of Selma-to-Montgomery march

[Syrinx]

WASHINGTON -- Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama will deliver the keynote address next month at the annual Bridge Crossing Jubilee that commemorates the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march, organizers said Tuesday.

Obama is scheduled to speak at a March 4 service at Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church, the site in Selma where marchers gathered in the historic protest that gave blacks across the South greater access to the ballot.

Several dozen other members of Congress plan to attend, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said Sam Walker, an event coordinator with the National Voting Rights Museum and Institute, which sponsors the commemoration. Rep. Artur Davis, D-Ala., whose district includes Selma, asked Obama to participate and plans to hold a fundraiser for the Illinois senator. Davis and Obama met while attending Harvard Law School.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/elections/264791,obamamarch022007.article

[trof]

1. THANKS! Been trying to find this.

I think a group of South Baldwin Democrats plan to attend.

[Frances]

3. Are you planning to attend?

If so, don't forget to give us a first hand account.

[Syrinx]

2. my pleasure :)

[BamaLefty]

4. Of course,

Clinton will be on the other side of town, as well. I'm going, as of right now.

[unsavedtrash]

5. I will be there

I only wish they would speak together instead of on opposite sides of town.
Does anyone know what time everything starts?

[BamaLefty]

6. I know that

the Obama breakfast starts at 7:30.