Demonstrators Gwendolyn Perrette, left, of Tuscaloosa, Ala., and Miriam Billanuava, of Birmingham, Ala., chant Friday with others outside the Capitol in Montgomery, Ala. The group re-enacting the Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march completed the journey Friday. Events surrounding the 48th anniversary of the march began last weekend with the Bridge Crossing Jubilee in Selma.MONTGOMERY, Ala. – About 200 people carried signs and sang spiritual songs Friday as a re-enactment of the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march ended with a rally at the Alabama Capitol.
The protesters chanted old civil rights slogans, but also targeted current issues. Many of the demonstrators carried signs protesting an education accountability bill that Republican lawmakers recently pushed through the Legislature.
Robert Binion, a 63-year-old black farmer from Clanton, participated in the last leg of the event, marching through downtown Montgomery to the Alabama Capitol.
Binion said he is getting tired of having to protest.
“I am very tired, but here I am still marching,” Binion said.