Remember the Freedom Rides in the summer of 1961? Well it appears that a sick hijacking of that significant event in Civil Rights history is now about to take place in the south.
Well I say, bring it on.
The anti-choicers are now attempting to twist the history of those Freedom Rides with a perverted and opportunistic thing called a ” Freedom Bus for the Unborn”.
Funded by Priests for Life of New York, coordinators of the billboard campaign have organized a “Freedom Bus for the Unborn” to launch on July 23 in Birmingham, Alabama –using the historical site opposite the 16th Street Baptist Church where four Black girls were killed in a bombing by the Ku Klux Klan in 1963.
I call it craven, but you can call it whatever you like at a rally this Saturday. Details below. Spokespeople for the sponsoring events weigh in as well, please read these two powerful statements.
“It is important that we are reminded of the rich tradition of Black women Civil Rights leaders like Coretta Scott King, Ella Baker, and Fannie Lou Hamer, who not only believed but exercised their belief that we, as Black women, are capable of making critical, personal, and just choices about our bodies, our families, and our communities,” said Paris Hatcher, Executive Director, SPARK Reproductive Justice NOW!
“We are offended by their cynicism, opportunism, and outright distortions of historical facts. Both Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King firmly supported reproductive justice for women. Lies by anti-abortionists, no matter how often repeated, cannot change those historical facts,” said Loretta Ross, National Coordinator of SisterSong.
Join us for a rally to call out this gross hijacking of a serious historical milestone.
When: Saturday, July 24th
Time: 2:30 pm
Where: King Center (449 Auburn Avenue Northeast, Atlanta, GA 30312-1590)
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