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This series was originally published in the print edition of The Rafu Shimpo on April 11, May 9, May 16 and July 14. About 40 activists from across the country, calling themselves Asian Americans Marching for Equality and Justice, were led by two marchers who took part in the 1965 marches, Todd Endo (wearing cap) and Vincent Wu. (Photo by Mike Murase) Over the weekend of March 7-8, 40-plus Asian Americans from across the country took part as an organized contingent in the 50t

This story is part of a series about the Asian Americans who traveled to Selma, Alabama for the 50th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” the Selma-to-Montgomery march and the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Click here to view the rest of the series. Funeral at Emmanuel AME Church By Mike Murase Nonprofit Administrator, Culver City In 1965, I was too young and unaware to take part in the march from Selma to Montgomery. A few years later, when I first got politically invo

This story is part of a series about the Asian Americans who traveled to Selma, Alabama for the 50th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” the Selma-to-Montgomery march and the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Click here to view the rest of the series. Amy Watanabe, 26, and Sachi Murase, 24, marched in the Asian Americans Marching for Equality and Justice contingent. (Photo by Mike Murase) By Sachi Murase Sales manager, Culver City As a 24-year-old from California, being i

This story is part of a series about the Asian Americans who traveled to Selma, Alabama for the 50th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” the Selma-to-Montgomery march and the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Click here to view the rest of the series. “Voice of Selma” Bettie Mae Fikes (standing, front) singing freedom songs at Tabernacle Baptist Church in Selma. (Photo by Mike Murase) By Shirley Hibino Retired, Highland Park After leaving LAX at 6:30 a.m., on the connecti

This story is part of a series about the Asian Americans who traveled to Selma, Alabama for the 50th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” the Selma-to-Montgomery march and the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Click here to view the rest of the series. Archive photo shows the tent city in Lowndes County, where blacks for forced to live for over two years when they were evicted from their tenant farms just for exercising their right to register to vote. By Gayle Hane Wong P

This story is part of a series about the Asian Americans who traveled to Selma, Alabama for the 50th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” the Selma-to-Montgomery march and the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Click here to view the rest of the series. By Carrie Morita Educator, Diamond Bar By the time Selma resident Joanne Bland turned 11 years old in 1965, she had been active in the voting rights struggle. Along with her older sister Lynda Lowery, Joanne took us to Geor

This story is part of a series about the Asian Americans who traveled to Selma, Alabama for the 50th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” the Selma-to-Montgomery march and the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Click here to view the rest of the series. About 40 activists from across the country, calling themselves Asian Americans Marching for Equality and Justice, were led by two marchers who took part in the 1965 marches, Todd Endo (wearing cap) and Vincent Wu. (Photo by

This story is part of a series about the Asian Americans who traveled to Selma, Alabama for the 50th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” the Selma-to-Montgomery march and the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Click here to view the rest of the series. Kathy Masaoka (center left, holding phone) and June Hibino (to Masaoka’s right) were among the thousands who took part in commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Selma-to-Montgomery march in Selma, Ala., on March 8. (Photo

This story is part of a series about the Asian Americans who traveled to Selma, Alabama for the 50th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” the Selma-to-Montgomery march and the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Click here to view the rest of the series. Kathy Masaoka (center left, holding phone) and June Hibino (to Masaoka’s right) were among the thousands who took part in commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Selma-to-Montgomery march in Selma, Ala., on March 8. (Photo

This story is part of a series about the Asian Americans who traveled to Selma, Alabama for the 50th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” the Selma-to-Montgomery march and the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Click here to view the rest of the series. Being in Alabama’s Black Belt gave me a completely different feeling than when I’m in LA. As we drove Route 80 from Montgomery to Selma, the landscape summoned strange emotions and I found myself wondering about the vast exp

This story is part of a series about the Asian Americans who traveled to Selma, Alabama for the 50th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” the Selma-to-Montgomery march and the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Click here to view the rest of the series. Thousands marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, walking peacefully and singing freedom songs. By Kathy Masaoka Retired Teacher, Silverlake On March 8, we gathered in Alabama — Asian Americans from Los Angeles, San Francis