Local Civil Rights Activist Recalls Marches In Selma

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Paul Tuthill

Published February 14, 2015 at 12:47 PM EST

Many Black History Month events are focusing on the marches in Selma, Alabama fifty years ago that helped bring an end to segregation in the South and led to the Voting Rights Act. Massachusetts State Representative Benjamin Swan of Springfield spent about three weeks in Alabama in March 1965. Swan, who was 21-years-old at the time, talked about the experience with WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill.

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