Wednesday, March 4, 2015

BSC's One-A-Chord Gospel Choir to Sing in Selma

This weekend is the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday" and the Selma-to-Montgomery march for voting rights.

BSC's own One-A-Chord Gospel Choir will be part of a huge choir that is scheduled to sing this weekend at the celebration in Selma.  They will perform a variety of traditional Gospel pieces as well songs and hymns made famous during the Civil Rights era.  The program also includes contemporary music chosen especially for this 50th anniversary.

A complete schedule of the events in Selma for March 6-8 is here:

http://media.wix.com/ugd/dc1532_3d188f140bca40c88e484cbfe6d23556.pdf

http://birminghamview.com/online/2015/02/10/star-salute-selma-set-bridge-crossing-jubilee-sunday-march-8/

Find out more about this period in U.S. Civil Rights history from the U.S. National Parks Service:
http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/al4.htm

Martin Luther King and his wife Coretta Scott King lead a black voting rights march from Selma, Alabama to the state capital in Montgomery a few weeks after "Bloody Sunday" in March, 1965.
Photograph: William Lovelace/Getty

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