Many Dignitaries and Leaders coming from
across the country and around the World

SELMA, AL – The 33rd Annual Bridge Crossing Jubilee and 60th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday Commemoration and Celebration begins next week in Selma, Alabama. This year the Bridge Crossing Jubilee will be held during the first full weekend in March, March 6-9, 2025. The Jubilee starts on Thursday, March 6,  with dozens of events for people of all ages, including a mass Meeting at Tabernacle Baptist Church.

The Foot Soldiers Breakfast and the Annual Freedom Flame Awards Gala on Saturday, March 8, and the Annual Martin & Coretta King Unity Breakfast and march re-enactment on Sunday March 9. There are many educational workshops, held on Friday and Saturday, which are open and free to the public.
There will also be a street fair with musical entertainment and vendors, on Water Street, at the Selma side of the bridge.

The Bloody Sunday March events and the official March re-enactment at the Edmund Pettus Bridge is on Sunday, March 9 starting at 1:00 from the foot on the bridge in Selma and across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, with a rally on the east side (Montgomery) of the bridge.

Leaders from across the country will be in Selma for the Annual Bridge Crossing Jubilee, including the 60th Anniversary events. Some of these leaders include U.S. House of Representatives Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries; a delegation of approximately 30 members of Congress including U.S. Reps. Jim Clyburn, Jasmine Crockett, Maxine Waters and Alabama U.S. Reps.; Martin Luther King, III; leaders of National Civil Rights Organizations; National Labor Leaders; other national and international leaders.

According to Hank Sanders and Faya Rose Toure (Sanders), founders and co-chairs of the Bridge Crossing Jubilee, have confirmed additional speakers who are listed below, at a press conference held this week. These are:

The Honorable Andy Beshear, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky
Maya Wiley, President & CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
Janai Nelson, President & Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund
Derrick Johnson, President & CEO of the NAACP
Fred Redmond, Secretary-Treasurer of the AFL-CIO
Marc Morial, President of The Urban League
Barbara Arnwine, President & Founder of the Transformative Justice Coalition
Sherilynn Ifill, Founder of the 14th Amendment Center for Law & Democracy
Damon T. Hewitt, President & Executive Director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
Celina Stewart, CEO of the League of Women Voters
Kristen Clarke, Former Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Justice
LaTosha Brown, Co-Founder of Black Voters Matter
Cliff Albright, Co-Founder of Black Voter Matters
Deborah N. Archer, President of the American Civil Liberties Union
Rev. Al Sharpton, Founder & President of the National Action Network and host of Politics Nation
Alabama U.S. Reps. Terri Sewell and Shomari Figures and 30 other members of Congress
And more to be announced

The Bridge Crossing Jubilee organizers also have invited Governors Wes Moore (Maryland), Gavin Newsom (California), JB Pritzker (Illinois), and Gretchen Whitmer (Michigan) and will provide updates as to their confirmations in the coming days. In addition to the landmark events highlighted in previous press conferences, the Jubilee includes dozens of workshops led by many of the national leaders listed above, who will also be speaking at the Marin & Coretta King Unity Breakfast, as well as many more events to be highlighted in the coming days.

Because the Jubilee has been the largest civil rights gathering in the nation for the past 25 years, many esteemed organizations hold meetings and events during the Annual Bridge Crossing Jubilee, but they never hold them out as being Jubilee events. However, we now have some for-profit organizations holding events to raise money and holding them out to be Jubilee events, when they are not. The Jubilee and the Selma to Montgomery March Foundation are and have always been non-profit organizations supported mostly by volunteers and donations.  
 
“Each year the Bridge Crossing Jubilee is the largest annual Civil Rights gathering in the nation. But the Jubilee commemorations and celebrations every ten years are always massive,” said Hank Sanders. He continued, “For the 50th Anniversary there were more than 115 thousand people in attendance on the Sunday alone. The 60th is also expected to be massive. At the Annual Jubilee, there is something for everyone – from the very young to the very senior. It is a pilgrimage that many make every year from across the country and around the world. See you in Selma for the 60th Anniversary and the Annual Bridge Crossing Jubilee! “

For more information and schedule updates, go to this website: http://www.selmajubilee.com