This is the group's fifth year attending.
) - Two busloads of students took off early Sunday morning to Selma to commemorate the 58th anniversary of Bloody Sunday.
The group, People United to Advance the Dream, will be making the walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in honor of what happened there. “Everyone that’s going will be enlightened and be educated on the voting rights act and what that affords us, and how important it is that it stays in place and never be changed,” Edwards said.
“It’s very important because you must vote to make a difference. If you don’t vote then you can’t dictate or say how you’re governed and the way you’re governed depend on the people that governs you,” Edwards said.
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