Colia Lafayette Clark was instrumental in organizing the Selma student civil rights movement.
SELMA, Ala. - A civil rights leader who started the Selma student civil rights movement was honored with a day of events including a march, nonviolent workshops, a mass meeting and a banquet.
Colia Lafayette Clark helped organize a nonviolent sit-in at Carter’s Drug Store in Selma that took place on Sept. 16, 1963, one day after theStudents from Ellwood Christian Academy sat in on a mass meeting learning about Clark’s role and its importance to events that led up to Bloody Sunday and the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
“A lot of times when we hear about the Civil Rights Movement, we hear about the teachers, but we don’t hear a lot about what was happening with organizing of the students,” said Dallas County District Judge Vernetta Perkins. Perkins said she believe it’s important that children learn about their history because it helps them view the world with a different “lens,” so they learn how they can become leaders in the future.
“It’s up to us to raise the leaders, this new generation of leaders, to be thinkers and thought leaders about where we can be and who we can become,” said Perkins.and get the latest local news and breaking alerts in your email!
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