Over two hundred people attended the “Fight for the Vote” rally in Selma at the Civil Rights Memorial Park at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge on August 6, 2025.
The event was sponsored by twenty organizations across the state including the NAACP, Save Ourselves Movement for Justice and Democracy, Alabama New South Coalition, Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice, Black Voters Matter, Lift the Vote, Foot Soldiers Park, Bridge Crossing Jubilee, Ordinary Peoples Society, Southern Poverty Law Center and many others.
The rally was held to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Voting Rights Act on August 6, 1965, and to plan and fight to strengthen the VRA based on the challenges and attacks by the Supreme Court (Shelby vs. Holder) and many state legislatures.
Speakers from the sponsoring organizations were interposed with rap and hip-hop performances, raffles of cash and other door prizes. There was food and a giveaway of children’s books and school supplies.