A little history

Our route from Texas to Montgomery took us thru Selma. If you remember, from life or American history if on the young side, a lot of things happened there. As it is not easy to park 50 ft of rv we decided to return yesterday rather than stop on way in.

 As this is the 50th anniversary you might also remember news broadcast from earlier in the year. 50 years ago this happened.

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 The route that the marchers took was the same route we had driven on Tuesday and again today. They have a very nice interpretive center at about the halfway mark. Also marked along the way were the various campsites setup for the four nights of the march. They walked about 11 miles per day, and the route is not with out some rather steep inclines.

We learned a lot that we did not know about this event. Having grown up in this time frame i was not ignorant of differences in racial treatment. I can tell you that life in Texas was very different than that of the deep south.