 and Reverend Frederick Douglas Rees. I'm just going to go through some of this article to reacquaint us with some of the history so people understand what I'm talking about here. Nearly 60 years ago, black leaders organized three marches from Selma, Alabama to Montgomery, the state capital, to protest legislation preventing black Americans from voting. The three marches, with the final occurring on March 21, 1965, were led by historical figures such as Martin Luther King Jr., John Lewis, and the Reverend Hosea Williams.