Thousands Join Sharpton on March to Montgomery

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An estimated 3,000 to 4,000 people stepped off Sunday in this year’s recreation of the annual Selma-to-Montgomery commemoration.

Led by the Rev. Al Sharpton, with civil rights leaders including, Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Martin Luther King III, the marchers walked across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, carrying signs protesting Alabama’s immigration law and voter identification laws.

In a blog for the Huffington Post, Sharpton noted that in some ways, things had changed little since the original march 47 years ago.

“It’s amazing that almost 50 years after this historic legislation [Voting Rights Act] was enacted that we now find ourselves under attack yet again … Your future, my future, our children’s future and the future of this very nation,” Sharpton wrote. “Without any validation, individual states are passing these strict voter ID laws that are clearly designed to disenfranchise the poor, people of color, the elderly and young folks … Let’s remind the world once again what’s at stake here. It’s time to go back to the future: all roads lead to Selma on Sunday.”