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A Journey to Selma

By Johnathan Reaves

Published March 11, 2022 at 12:57 PM CST

Flower petals lie on the Edmund Pettus Bridge ahead of Rep. John Lewis' casket crossing during a memorial service for Lewis, Sunday, July 26, 2020, in Selma, Ala. Lewis, who carried the struggle against racial discrimination from Southern battlegrounds of the 1960s to the halls of Congress, died Friday, July 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

More than 40 delegates joined the Arkansas Dr,. Martin Luther King, Jr. commission for a trip to Selma, Alabama this month. Johnathan Reaves, with our partner station KASU, traveled there, too.

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