Document Type
Opinion
Publication Date
3-9-2015
Department 1
History
Abstract
Fifty years after he addressed a crowd in Lancaster’s Penn Square about “the idea that all men are one,” Wayne Glick remembers that moment as if it happened yesterday. Glick’s speech, inviting Lancastrians to participate in the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, on behalf of African-American voting rights, is a footnote to Lancaster County history. But the march itself, featured in the popular film “Selma,” helped to change America. [excerpt]
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Recommended Citation
Birkner, Michael J. "Lancastrians Marched with Dr. King in Selma." Lancaster Online (March 9, 2015).
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