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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, March 12, 1995                   TAG: 9503140069
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: MONTGOMERY, ALA.                                LENGTH: Short

RE-ENACTORS END CIVIL RIGHTS MARCH

Civil rights activists took the final steps Saturday in retracing the historic Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march, winding up on the steps of the Alabama Capitol below a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

Jesse Jackson, the Rev. Joseph Lowery and U.S. Rep. Donald Payne, D-N.J., chairman of the Black Congressional Caucus, addressed about 1,000 people who marked the 30th anniversary of the march, which led to passage of the Voting Rights Act.

``Thirty years later, the struggle continues. Thirty years later, our voting rights are under attack,'' Jackson told the crowd. About 100 people made the 54-mile journey.

- Associated Press 


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