Rev. Hosea Williams, Sr. -- Civil Rights Memorial Park, Selma AL
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N 32° 24.183 W 087° 01.013
16S E 498412 N 3585112
A polished black granite memorial to civil rights icon Rev. Hosea Williams, Sr at Civil Rights Memorial Park, just over the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma AL
Waymark Code: WMWG6Z
Location: Alabama, United States
Date Posted: 08/31/2017
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member bluesnote
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Selma Civil Rights park is located at the east side of tre Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, the place where peaceful African American civil rights marchers were met with force by armed while AL State Troopers and beaten on Bloody Sunday, 7 Mar 1965.

There are 4 separate memorials here. The waymarked memorial is dedicated to Rev. Hosea Williams, Sr., and reads as follows:

"In memory of
REVEREND HOSEA WILLIAMS SR.

Leader of the Selma- Montgomery March
"Bloody Sunday" March 7, 1965

[Bronze likeness]

He Fed the Hungry

'UNBOSSED AND UNBOUGHT'
1926-2000

Presented by SCLC/ W.O.M.E.N. Inc.
Women's Organizational Movement for Equality Now
EVELYN G. LOWERY, FOUNDER/CHAIR
March 3, 2002"
Civil Right Type: Race (includes U.S. Civil Rights movement)

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