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project’s organizer, on the morn- ing of Feb. 1, the first Civil Rights activist will state in several sen- tences their fondest action or event witnessed, and throughout the day young people will comment and ask questions about their involve- ment enabling the icon to share


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more about their experience while empowering young people through knowledge. When their schedule allows they will respond, creating a candid dialogue about the impor- tance of community involvement and civic engagement. Olsen’s journey began in 1965


when he answered the call of Dr. Martin Luther King to join march- es in Selma, Ala., to gain public support of the Civil Rights Move- ment. As he, the Rev. Orloff Miller and the Rev. James Reeb, Unitarian ministers who supported the cause, made their way to Brown Chapel


the evening after the Bloody Sun- day march, Reeb was attacked and murdered. Olsen and Miller were also beaten in the attack. Te men experienced a har-


rowing journey to the hospital in Birmingham, Ala., when the emer- gency vehicle they were traveling in experienced a flat tire and they waited anxiously for another am- bulance to arrive as a carload full of white men surrounded the ve- hicle. Reeb died after two days in the


hospital. A few days later, the Vot- ing Rights Act was brought before


Congress, and it is believed his death hastened the passage of this crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement. After recovering, Olsen testified


against the killers, an action that put his own life at risk. An all-white, all-male jury found


innocent the three men who had been charged with killing Reeb. For more on the project, go to


facebook.com/pages/Civil-Rights- Icons-Workers-and-Volunteers-on- Face-Book/173008119405780.


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