For Immediate Release: Thursday, February 18, 2021
Pandemic Will Not Stop The 2021 Martin & Coretta King Unity Breakfast Unity Breakfast to Be Drive In This Year on March 7th!
Selma, AL – In spite of the pandemic, the 2021 Martin & Coretta Unity Breakfast will take place this year on Bloody Sunday. However, it will be a drive in breakfast in order to protect participants and attendees. A press conference was held at 11:00 a.m. today at 1 Union Street in Selma by members of The Selma-to-Montgomery March Foundation.
Hank Sanders said: “It is so important that the Martin & Coretta King Unity Breakfast be held as usual on Bloody Sunday. It is even more important with the pandemic weighing on everybody. We have to utilize the same creativity to hold this Unity Breakfast during these terrible pandemic times as Marchers utilized 56 years ago when they took marching feet and singing songs and praying prayers and overcame great obstacles.”
Some speakers will be participating in person while others will be presenting virtually. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2021 Unity Breakfast will take place live in the parking lot of Wallace Community College Selma (WCCS) at 7:30 a.m. on Sunday, March 7th. People will be attending in their cars in the parking lot of the College so they can safely see and hear the speakers live on stage and on multiple, giant LED screens on the campus. Social distancing and masking will be observed.
The theme of the 2021 Martin and Coretta King Unity Breakfast, which is a landmark event of the Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee, is Unity, Now More Than Ever. WCCS President Dr. James Mitchell said: “In the year 2020, four legendary voting rights and civil rights legends passed. This breakfast will also acknowledge and honor them: Reverend Joseph Lowery, Congressman John Lewis, Dr. C.T. Vivian and Attorney Bruce Boynton.”
A number of national leaders have been invited. Among those are President Joe Biden, who has been to Selma for Bloody Sunday to speak on at least two occasions and as of today is not yet confirmed. A list of confirmed speakers will be shared in a week or so. In addition, there will be a slow drive for breakfast participants from WCCS to the Bridge in honor of the four legends, and information on that will be shared within a week.
This year marks the 56th Annual Commemoration of Bloody Sunday and The Selma-to-Montgomery March and the 29th Annual Bridge Crossing Jubilee.
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CONTACT: Hank Sanders, (334) 782-1651 and [email protected] Dr. James Mitchell, (334) 876-9231 and [email protected]