Tracy Schuler-Vivo, Youngstown City School Districtâs Visual and Performing Arts director, works with Jack Ciarniello of Take Note Productions in assembling the virtual performance presentation commemorating the anniversary of the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., to end discrimination in voter registration. Ciarniello, a musician, arranger and audio / video engineer on the project, also serves on YSUâs music recording faculty.
YOUNGSTOWN — Youngstown City School District Visual and Performing Arts students have released a virtual performance to commemorate the anniversary of the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., to end discrimination in voter registration.
On March 7, 1965, about 600 people, led by John Lewis and Hosea Williams, began to march the 54 miles from Selma to Montgomery, the state capital, to register black voters.