Demonstrating the power of protest and standing up for a just cause,
here is an exciting tribute to the educators who participated in the
1965 Selma Teachers' March.
Reverend F.D. Reese was a leader of the Voting Rights Movement in Selma,
Alabama. As a teacher and principal, he recognized that his colleagues
were viewed with great respect in the city. Could he convince them to
risk their jobs--and perhaps their lives--by organizing a teachers-only
march to the county courthouse to demand their right to vote? On January
22, 1965, the Black teachers left their classrooms and did just that,
with Reverend Reese leading the way. Noted nonfiction authors Sandra
Neil Wallace and Rich Wallace conducted the last interviews with
Reverend Reese before his death in 2018 and interviewed several teachers
and their family members in order to tell this story, which is
especially important today.