On January 20, 2025, the Centerville-Washington Diversity Council hosted The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day 23rd Annual Breakfast at The Yankee Trace Golf Club. The keynote speaker for the event was Lynda Blackmon Lowery.
Lynda Blackmon Lowery has been a key figure in the civil rights movement since the early 1960s. A member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), she marched in pivotal events like “Bloody Sunday” and “Turn Around Tuesday” and was the youngest marcher in the historic Selma to Montgomery March. Beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge during Bloody Sunday, she required 35 stitches. Her early activism against Jim Crow laid the foundation for her lifelong work in civil and human rights. She is also the author of Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March.
