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Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee to honor civil rights icons

by Kat Stafford
| March 3, 2021 8:03 AM

DETROIT (AP) — Bernard Lafayette Jr. was a young activist emerging from the 1961 sit-ins and Freedom Rides that fought for Black civil rights and an end to racial segregation when he received his next assignment.

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