Rotary: Jim Hall On 1965 Historic Civil Rights March
Rotary Club Of Los Alamos
“We still haven’t achieved our goal,” reflected local leader Jim Hall as he addressed the Rotary Club of Los Alamos March 2 via Zoom.
Hall spoke in commemoration of the 56th anniversary of the historic 1965 civil rights marches that led supporters from Selma, Ala. to Montgomery, the state capital.
Hall, whose father was a Presbyterian minister in Arlington, Texas, remarked that he has been “involved in civil rights since childhood.” By the time Hall was a college student at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn., there was increasing concern that successful implementation of the 1964 Voting Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, or national origin, would be jeopardized because it strengthened voting rights for African-Americans and desegregation of schools. It was a volatile subject, especially in Southern states and particularly in Alabama w
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