Salute Selma’s Annual Bridge Crossing Jubilee is This Weekend

Salute Selma Inc. presents the Annual Bridge Crossing Jubilee events on Saturday, March 5, 2022, and Sunday, March 6, 2022, in Selma, Alabama. These events are to commemorate the Selma to Montgomery March and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Saturday, March 5, 2022

10 am – 3:30 pm

Health/Wealth/Wellness/Justice Empowerment Village

Admission: Jubilee Ticketed Event in front of the Bridge, Water Avenue, Selma, AL 36701

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Sunday, March 6, 2022

10 am – 12:30 pm

Salute Selma’s Commitment to Excellence Brunch at The Anchor

Admission Invitation Only

10 am – 3:30 pm

Health/Wealth/Wellness/Justice Empowerment Village

Admission: Jubilee Ticketed Event in front of the Bridge, Water Avenue, Selma, AL 36701

1:45 pm – 4 pm

Historic March Across the Edmund Pettus Bridge

Selma to Montgomery Student Sojourn

Salute Selma, Inc. is “a nonprofit organized as a 501 (c)(3) organization is committed to offering leadership experiences that enhance the knowledge, respect, and observance of the Selma Voting Rights Movement through humanitarianism, arts, and education, health, and wellness, political and economic empowerment.”

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