Only my cousin Ed could think driving 5 hours, one way, would be a great family trip to celebrate his birthday, to commemorate Bloody Sunday and walk across the “bridge”. (and he could not join the walk because of back issues). So he loaded up his RV with 16 other people and hit the road jack!!
“On March 17, 1965, even as the Selma-to-Montgomery marchers fought for the right to carry out their protest, President Lyndon Johnson addressed a joint session of Congress, calling for federal voting rights legislation to protect African Americans from barriers that prevented them from voting. That August, Congress passed the Voting Rights Act, which guaranteed the right to vote (first awarded by the 15th Amendment) to all African Americans” (http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/selma-montgomery-march) 
Just think, 52 years later the Republican party is once again assaulting the right of the least able of us to vote.
