Selma’s Pulpit Visitors
Activities in Selma this weekend commemorate the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery march. Selma pulpits are seeing visitors tomorrow, some in a “command performance:”
It was [GA’s U.S. Rep. John] Lewis who invited Obama to Selma a month before Clinton decided to go. And it is Obama, not Clinton, who has been awarded Selma’s prime real estate - the Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church where the famous march began.
Clinton will be speaking at the black First Baptist Church a few yards away on Martin Luther King Jr. Street. [Jesse] Jackson and [Al] Sharpton have reserved pulpits at Tabernacle Baptist Church and the Second Baptist Church, respectively.
Though curiously, Jackson “will not be coming because of an already scheduled trip to Ghana.”
