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Working towards a peaceful society
Selma marcher Joanne Bland tells students to get involved
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Joanne Bland, far right, speaks with a Georgia Southern student and Dr. David Dudley, an author and Georgia Southern professor, following her presentation, "My Piece in the Puzzle of Social Change" Thursday at GSU's Nesmith-Lane Conference Center. - photo by JEREMY WILBURN/Georgia Southern University
Civil and human rights activist Joanne Bland offered powerful and challenging words for the mostly younger generation in the audience when she spoke Thursday at Georgia Southern's Nessmith-Lane Conference Center. Her lecture, entitled "My Piece in the Puzzle of Social Change," stirred emotions and evoked a host of questions from college students. The audience was silent as Bland gave first-hand details of "Bloody Sunday," the first attempt to march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital of Montgomery in March 1965.
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