Clinton tour doesn’t include Selma

Published 10:34 pm Friday, November 6, 2015

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton is scheduled to headline a civil rights tour at the end of the month commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott.

The tour includes stops at historic sites in Montgomery, Tuskegee and Selma, but according to officials, Clinton won’t be making this leg of the tour.

A spokesperson for the National Bar Association, who is hosting the two-day tour, confirmed Friday that Clinton will not make a stop in Selma.

Email newsletter signup

Clinton is scheduled to make an appearance at Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church in Montgomery on the second day of the tour for a public meeting that will feature civil rights leaders of the past and present.

Scheduled to speak are Fred Gray, who was Rosa Parks’ attorney; Benjamin Crump, who is the president of the National Bar Association; and Paulette Brown, who is the first African American woman to lead the American Bar Association.

The tour will feature stops at the Rosa Parks Museum, the Edmund Pettus Bridge, the Tuskegee History Center, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Lowndes County Interpretive Center and the unveiling of the Rosa Parks historic marker.

Clinton, who is leading polls in the Democratic primary, is a former U.S. Secretary of State, U.S. Senator and First Lady.